Reply to thread

Message

<blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 5123174" data-attributes="member: 463">From here, AIR: <a href="http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm" target="_blank">Medieval Demographics Made Easy</a>I was comparing England to the rest of western Europe of course, not &quot;Europe&quot; which is normally taken as extending to the Urals.&nbsp; Medieval France (118/sq m AIE), medieval Germany (78/sq m) both much higher population density than Britain (ca 30/sq m), or England.&nbsp; Much of England was, and is, hills and moorland unsuitable for agriculture.&nbsp; France by contrast is mostly tillable landEdit:&nbsp; Or to put it another way, 15th century France's 25 million population was nearly ten times that of England.Edit 2: Medieval England did not have modern England's enormous predominance in population over the rest of Great Britain.&nbsp; AIR 15th century England had around 3 million (down from ca 4 million right before the Black Death), to Wales &amp; Scotland's 1.5 million combined.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="S'mon, post: 5123174, member: 463"] From here, AIR: [url=http://www.io.com/~sjohn/demog.htm]Medieval Demographics Made Easy[/url] I was comparing England to the rest of western Europe of course, not "Europe" which is normally taken as extending to the Urals. Medieval France (118/sq m AIE), medieval Germany (78/sq m) both much higher population density than Britain (ca 30/sq m), or England. Much of England was, and is, hills and moorland unsuitable for agriculture. France by contrast is mostly tillable land Edit: Or to put it another way, 15th century France's 25 million population was nearly [B]ten times [/B] that of England. Edit 2: Medieval England did not have modern England's enormous predominance in population over the rest of Great Britain. AIR 15th century England had around 3 million (down from ca 4 million right before the Black Death), to Wales & Scotland's 1.5 million combined. [/QUOTE]

Verification