This is the excel file to the original data that supports the content and analysis of my new book Epidemic Disease and Society in the Premodern Low Countries: Inequality and Community (Abingdon: Routledge, 2026). The file contains medieval sources for calculating mortality indexes and the raw data; a list of all the localities with 16th or 17th-century burials information and the raw burials data; the same localities with early modern population estimates; a list of pest houses and their dates of foundation; burials, marriages, and baptisms data for early modern Delft; and 2 reconstructions of plague costs for 2 households in the village of Dinther. This represents all the quantitative data collected for the book.

Archival manuscripts, some available digitally, some only accessible at the physical archives. All archives mentioned in the excel files.

The book is published in February 2026, and is available in hardback, paperback, and as an open-access file.

If you use this dataset, please cite: Curtis, D. (2025). Original burials data for the book Epidemic Disease and Society in the Premodern Low Countries: Inequality and Community (Routledge, 2026) (Version V1) [Data set]. DataverseNL. https://doi.org/10.34894/LRAMMV