A Population History of Sixteenth-Century Sweden
2025
Andersson, Martin
Population change and the social structure are key for our understanding of premodern societies. Drawing from a vast range of sources, including private and crown accounts, cadastres, taxation lists, wage lists and food registers, this book presents the first local and national population figures for Sweden for each year from 1530 to 1600. In addition, it also explores how the social structure of Sweden changed following the Reformation and during a period of rapid state formation. This includes studies of servants and cottagers, as well as of those working at church and nobility estates, and those employed by the Crown at castles, shipyards, mining industries, and at the royal courts. In the appendices, information is provided on the regional developments of each province (landskap), town and hundred (härad) in Sweden, as well as extensive presentations of the regional variation in source availability and quality. A population history of sixteenth-century Sweden promises to be the main point of departure for all further research on the population and social structure of Medieval and Early Modern Sweden, as well as a welcome reference for comparative population histories of sixteenth-century Europe.
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