[The history of the French population. Part 1: from the beginning to the renaissance]

This book the first in a planned series of four volumes on the history of the population of France is concerned with the population history of France from its origins to the end of the Middle Ages. Separate chapters are included on the prehistoric period; Roman Gaul; the High Middle Ages; the medieval population surge; urban growth; the population decline of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries; the demographic revival; hygiene illness war and death; migration; and the medieval family. (ANNOTATION)