| Two epidemics of plague swept through Elizabethan London, in 1603 and 1625, with little more than spiritual cleanliness and 'a good Sivill orange stuck with cloves' to impede their progress. Drawing on literary and documentary sources that include the graphic eye-witness accounts of Thomas Dekker's Plague Pamphlets, Wilson narrates the history of plague in early 17th century London, beginning with contemporary theories about its causes and cure, and giving a detailed account of the rise of the plague-orders from their inception in 1518 up to 1625. Our own Sandpiper reprint. 1927, 2nd Ed-1963 |
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