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The great plague : the story of London's most deadly year /

Moote, A. Lloyd

The great plague : the story of London's most deadly year / A. Lloyd Moote and Dorothy C. Moote. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c2004. - xxi, 357 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-343) and index.

PART I: Beginnings: 1. Winter, 1664-1665 -- 2. The Other London -- 3. Signs and Sources. PART II: Confusion: 4. Fleeing or Staying? -- 5. The Medical Marketplace -- 6. Plague's Progress. PART III: the Abyss: 7. The Doctors Stumble -- 8. Business Not as Usual -- 9. Requiem for London -- 10. Contagion in the Countryside. PART IV: Surviving: 11. The Web of Authority -- 12. Not by Bread Alone -- 13. Awakening. Epilogue: Of Once and Future Plagues. Appendixes: A.. Bills of Mortality for Greater London. B. Parish Records of St. Margaret Westminster. C. Parish Records of St. Giles Cripplegate. D. The Three Plague Pandemics.

0801877830 (hc)

2003006237


Plague--History--England--London--17th century.

RC178.G72 / L665 2004

362.1/969232/09421

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