Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Introduction
1. Plague: what's in a name??
2. Pandemics and epidemics
3. Big impacts: the Black Death
4. Private horrors
5. Public health
6. Enduring images
7. The lessons of histories
References
Further
Reading
Index
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Paul Slack is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern Social History at Oxford University. He is the author of The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England, (OUP , 1990), and The Invention of Improvement: Information and Material Progress in Seventeenth-Century England, (OUP 2015), which won
the Samuel Pepys Prize for 2015. He has been the Editor of the journal Past and Present, is a Fellow of the British Academy, and was Principal of Linacre College, Oxford, until 2010.