The Fifteenth Century XII

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