'For the safte and preservation of the toune' : plague and the poor in early modern Aberdeen

This thesis examines the incidence and effects of plague in early modern Aberdeen. In so doing, it refutes the presumption that Scotland lacks the sources necessary to allow the impact of past epidemics to be gauged and redresses the current imbalance in the historiography of plague studies. The unp...

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Main Author: Jillings, Karen
Published: University of Aberdeen 2001
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.394553