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Kristin Heitman

is an independent scholar living in Bethesda, Maryland.  She and Professor Vanessa Harding of Birkbeck College, University of London, convened a Folger Research Institute symposium on the London Bills of Mortality.
Of Counts and Causes: The Emergence of the London Bills of Mortality
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Of Counts and Causes: The Emergence of the London Bills of Mortality

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A guest post by Dr. Kristin Heitman The Folger’s rare holdings let us glimpse aspects of Renaissance and early modern practices otherwise lost to us. For example, while many European cities and towns had well-documented methods for monitoring the health…