The Fifteenth Century XII

A thought-provoking collection of articles. * ARCHIVES * Interesting and important. * THE RICARDIAN * These essays offer an interesting glimpse of how the century after the Black Death continued to acknowledge, respond to, plan for and generally live with this waxing and waning threat. * SOCIAL HISTORY OF MEDICINE * Aid[s] our understanding of [plague] and its human responses and will be a welcome addition to any medical history library. * VESALIUS * [O]ffers a good overview to the types of social and institutional challenges that medieval Europeans faced with regular outbreaks of plague and other disease. . . . Those teaching advanced-level courses on the Black Death, medical history, or medieval public health will find the volume useful for themselves as well as their students. * SPECULUM *

LINDA CLARK is Editor Emeritus at the History of Parliament. NEIL MURPHY is Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History at Northumbria University. Sheila Sweetinburgh is a Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Kent History and Heritage at Canterbury Christ Church University and editor of Early Medieval Kent, 800-1220 (Boydell, 2016) and Later Medieval Kent, 1220-1540 (Boydell, 2018).

Introduction - Carole Rawcliffe Looking for Yersinia Pestis: Scientists, Historians and the Black Death - Jim L Bolton Pestilence and Poetry: John Lydgate's Danse Macabre - Karen Smyth Pilgrimage in 'an Age of Plague': Seeking Canterbury's 'hooly blisful martir' in 1420 and 1470 - Sheila Sweetinburgh An Urban Environment: Norwich in the Fifteenth Century - Elizabeth Rutledge Mid-Level Officials in Fifteenth-Century Norwich - Samantha Sagui Leprosy and Public Health in Late Medieval Rouen - Elma Brenner Plague Ordinances and the Management of Infectious Diseases in Northern French Towns, c.1450 - c.1560 - Neil Murphy The Renaissance Invention of Quarantine - Jane Stevens Crawshaw Coping with Epidemics in Renaissance Italy: Plague and the Great Pox - John Henderson The Historian and the Laboratory: The Black Death Disease - Samuel K. Cohn