... rate would increase meaning there would be population losses. Similarly, disease would have catastrophic effects on population growth given the lack of sophisticated remedies available to combat them. From 1500 Europe's population was still experiencing growth from the period of post Black Death recovery that had ravaged through Europe. During the century Europe's population as a whole began to increase possibly due to a relative absence of destructive wars and a lull in the frequent attacks of epidemics. However this growth was uneven with the highest rate of population growth in the North in the Scandinavian countries, Britain and the Low Countries. The Scandinavian countries by 1600 registered on advance of two thirds of their 1500 levels. As Kamen describes 'urbanisation was a notable feature of the period.1' In addition a greater security of food supply after 1500 in a period of harvests meant there were more marriages and at an ...

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