• 1. Introduction to Medieval Demographic Thought ; PART 1: THE CHURCH AND GENERATION ; 2. Marriage and the Church's Marriage-Texts ; 3. William of Auvergne ; 4. Equal or Unequal Numbers of Men and Women ; 5. The Precept of Marriage and Sufficient Multiplication ; 6. Avoidance of Offspring (i): The General Picture ; 7. Avoidance of Offspring (ii): Canon Law and Sentences Commentaries ; 8. Avoidance of Offspring (iii): The Pastoral Picture ; PART 2: THE MAP OF THE WORLD ; 9. Inhabitation of the World ; PART 3: ARISTOTLE AND MULTITUDE ; 10. Animals and Life-span ; 11. The Politics (i): Reception ; 12. The Politics (ii): Age at Marriage ; 13. The Politics (iii): Multitude ; THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY ; 14. The Bulging Circuit of Florence ; Epigraph: The Climate of Thought ; Bibliography ; Index of Manuscripts ; General Index

Review from previous edition Peter Biller ends his book with a question: is medieval demographic thought recognisably there? He has left his readers with only one possible answer - and in doing so changed the way we must think not just about the medieval past but about what has come after in terms of understanding the world.

• 1. Introduction to Medieval Demographic Thought ; PART 1: THE CHURCH AND GENERATION ; 2. Marriage and the Church's Marriage-Texts ; 3. William of Auvergne ; 4. Equal or Unequal Numbers of Men and Women ; 5. The Precept of Marriage and Sufficient Multiplication ; 6. Avoidance of Offspring (i): The General Picture ; 7. Avoidance of Offspring (ii): Canon Law and Sentences Commentaries ; 8. Avoidance of Offspring (iii): The Pastoral Picture ; PART 2: THE MAP OF THE WORLD ; 9. Inhabitation of the World ; PART 3: ARISTOTLE AND MULTITUDE ; 10. Animals and Life-span ; 11. The Politics (i): Reception ; 12. The Politics (ii): Age at Marriage ; 13. The Politics (iii): Multitude ; THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY ; 14. The Bulging Circuit of Florence ; Epigraph: The Climate of Thought ; Bibliography ; Index of Manuscripts ; General Index

Review from previous edition Peter Biller ends his book with a question: is medieval demographic thought recognisably there? He has left his readers with only one possible answer - and in doing so changed the way we must think not just about the medieval past but about what has come after in terms of understanding the world.

• 1. Introduction to Medieval Demographic Thought ; PART 1: THE CHURCH AND GENERATION ; 2. Marriage and the Church's Marriage-Texts ; 3. William of Auvergne ; 4. Equal or Unequal Numbers of Men and Women ; 5. The Precept of Marriage and Sufficient Multiplication ; 6. Avoidance of Offspring (i): The General Picture ; 7. Avoidance of Offspring (ii): Canon Law and Sentences Commentaries ; 8. Avoidance of Offspring (iii): The Pastoral Picture ; PART 2: THE MAP OF THE WORLD ; 9. Inhabitation of the World ; PART 3: ARISTOTLE AND MULTITUDE ; 10. Animals and Life-span ; 11. The Politics (i): Reception ; 12. The Politics (ii): Age at Marriage ; 13. The Politics (iii): Multitude ; THE LIGHT OF COMMON DAY ; 14. The Bulging Circuit of Florence ; Epigraph: The Climate of Thought ; Bibliography ; Index of Manuscripts ; General Index

Review from previous edition Peter Biller ends his book with a question: is medieval demographic thought recognisably there? He has left his readers with only one possible answer - and in doing so changed the way we must think not just about the medieval past but about what has come after in terms of understanding the world.