"The best book about the history of medicine in England ever written. It is also an outstanding piece of social history."--Journal of Social History
"Paul Slack has written the definitive social history of Tudor and Stuart plague."--Times Higher Education Supplement
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This book is a classic study of a disease which had a profound impact on the history of Tudor and Stuart England. Plague was both a personal affliction and a social calamity, regularly decimating urban populations. Slack vividly describes the stresses which plague imposed on individuals, families, and whole communities, and the ways in which people tried to explain, control, and come to terms with it.
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