Table of contents
- List of tables
- List of figures
- List of illustrations
- Introduction
- Sources
- Literature
- Chapter 1. The value of parish registers and research methodology
- 1. Continuity of preservation, external description and elements of content
- 2. The completeness of registers
- 3. Methodology
- Chapter 2. Warsaw in the 18thcentury
- 1. Warsaw on the map of Poland and Central Europe
- 2. The territorial development of the Holy Cross parish by the end of the 18thcentury
- 3. The parish community
- 4. Demographic structures
- 4.1. Population by sex, age and marital status
- 4.2. Household: structure and size
- 4.3. The place of old people
- Chapter 3. Nuptiality
- 1. Changes in annual numbers of marriages
- 2. Marriages in the years of natural disasters
- 3. Seasonality of marriages
- 4. Parish compulsion. Mixed marriages. Residence before the marriage
- 4.1. Parish compulsion
- 4.2. Mixed marriages
- 4.3. Residence before the marriage
- 5. Age of the newlyweds
- 6. Marital status of the newlyweds
- 7. Duration of marriages and widowhood
- Chapter 4. Births
- 1. Changes in annual numbers
- 2. Births during natural disasters
- 3. Seasonality
- 4. The size of the reconstructed families
- 5. Illegitimate births and foundlings
- Chapter 5. Fertility
- 1. Fertility by marriage age
- 2. Fertility and the duration of marriage
- 3. Premarital conceptions and the protogenetic interval
- 4. Intergenetic intervals
- 5. Did Varsovians practice limitation of births?
- Chapter 6. Mortality
- 1. Changes in the annual numbers of burials
- 2. Seasonality
- 2.1. Seasonality of deceases during plagues and epidemics
- 3. Mortality of infants and children
- 4. Adult mortality
- 5. Causes of deceases
- Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Name index
- Place index
