Epidemie e pandemie. Un’analisi storiografica

Historians who share the Malthusian model have devoted great attention to the analysis of mortality crises, believing that they have strongly influenced the evolution of pre-industrial society. The Covid-19 pandemic, however, has highlighted that the traditional indicators used by the literature to assess the severity and economic consequences of epidemics are sometimes unreliable. Current events lead us to consider the data on infections and deaths from epidemics of the past centuries in a different light, thus opening up new research perspectives.