Society in an age of plague / edited by Linda Clark and Carole Rawcliffe.

Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : The Boydell Press, 2013.

viii, 223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Looking for Yersinia pestis : scientists, historians and the black death / J.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 fox / John Henderson -- The historian and the laboratory : the black death disease / Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.