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Was Plague an Exclusively Urban Phenomenon? Plague Mortality in the Seventeenth-Century Low Countries

Daniel R. Curtis
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2016) 47 (2): 139–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/JINH_a_00975
Published: 01 August 2016
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Abstract
Current scholarship reinforces the notion that by the early modern period, plague had become largely an urban concern in northwestern Europe. However, a data set comprised of burial information from the seventeenth-century Low Countries suggests that plague’s impact on the countryside was far more severe and pervasive than heretofore supposed.
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