The Editors : Renzo Derosas, born in Italy in 1952, works in the Department of History of Ca' Foscari University, Venice, where he currently teaches Population History and Quantitative Methods for Historians. He has published several essays on Italian social and demographic history and historical methods. Michel Oris, born in Belgium in 1961, worked for the Belgian National Fund for Science until March 2000.
He is now professor of Population History at the University of Geneva, Department of Economic History. His publications cover both contemporary and historical demography, as well as social and economic history.