Some resources on plagues in history

Websites:

https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200701-how-the-black-death-make-the-rich-richer

https://www.ancient.eu/article/1540/medieval-cures-for-the-black-death/

Ancient History Encyclopedia
https://guildhalllibrarynewsletter.wordpress.com/?s=plague&submit=Search

Great plague of London
Exhibition review Hope and Healing: Painting in Italy in a Time of Plague, 1500–1800
http://www.caareviews.org/reviews/758#.XxnpXS3Mx0s The book itself is available.

Guillaume Dufay O sancte Sebastiane Motet for four voices composed around 1440 during an epidemic of the plague in Ferrara
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6qS3_GaDkY

Rare books and primary sources
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=f68UAAAAQAAJ&pg=PP3#v=onepage&q&f=false

Traité de la peste: recueilli des meilleurs auteurs anciens et …, Volume 1 1721 By Jean-Jacques Manget

National Library of Medicine: Gateway to Rare Books
https://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/collections/books.html

The Wellcome Collection, London https://wellcomecollection.org use the search function

http://www.medici.org use the search function

To get a sense by reading synopses of archival documents from the 15th-17th centuries of what is said about plague and smallpox, go to this website and click on BIA. To gain access you will need to register and obtain a password, but it is free. Once you are in, you will see a Simple Search menu in the top center. Choose Document Synopses and enter a search term that interests you. “Plague” produces several hundred entries; “Smallpox” fewer. A list of relevant documents will pop up on the right and when you click on one example, you’ll see a synopsis in English.

Printed Books:

Chiu, R. (2017). Plague and Music in the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.