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Quality of Life and Mortality in Seventeenth Century London and Dublin

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  • © 2017

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Authors:
  1. Thomas E. Jordan

    1. University of Missouri - St. Louis , St. Louis, USA

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  • Takes a quality of life approach to examine the high mortality rate in the early modern era
  • Includes data from Bills of Mortality kept by the parishes
  • Examines several social, emotional, and intellectual aspects of life
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Well-Being and Quality of Life Research (BRIEFSWELLBEING)

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Table of contents (4 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Thomas E. Jordan
    Pages 1-6

  3. London

    • Thomas E. Jordan
    Pages 7-25

  4. Dublin

    • Thomas E. Jordan
    Pages 27-43

  5. Commentary

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    Pages 45-53

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 55-70
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About this book

This book provides an examination of the quantitative and qualitative factors affecting mortality in two major cities of the British Isles: London and Dublin. It covers a scale from individuals mentioned by name to aggregates of mortality data in the Bills of Mortality. Focusing on the Seventeenth Century, the book pays attention to the Great Plague of 1665, and to earlier years in which epidemics decimated populations.


To the average person living in the seventeenth century, life was a series of challenges. Mortality among the young was high, and for those who survived early childhood, death in their fifties was fairly typical. Men and women might aspire to a longer life span, but even the healthiest practices were no guarantee when the overall quality of life was low. With fatal illnesses exemplified by typhoid fever on the one hand, and the arrival of yersinia pestis – plague through ports on the Mediterranean at regular intervals of several years, on the other, mortality became a foreseeable event.


Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Missouri - St. Louis , St. Louis, USA

    Thomas E. Jordan

About the author

Thomas E. Jordan is Emeritus Curators' Professor of Child Development from the University of Missouri-St. Louis, where he served as Associate Vice Chancellor and Dean of the Graduate School. He is a recipient of the research prize of the Royal Society of Health for his longitudinal study of delayed mental development in children. Dr. Jordan is the author of several books on Ireland, including a three-volume series on the censuses of Ireland, 1821-1911.

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