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A Plague of Plagues: The Problem of Plague Diagnosis in Medieval England

John Theilmann, Frances Cate
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2007) 37 (3): 371–393.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/jinh.2007.37.3.371
Published: 01 January 2007
Abstract
Recent works by historians and biologists have called into doubt whether the great epidemic of 1348/49 in England was the plague. Examination of the biological evidence, however, shows their arguments to be faulty. The great epidemic of 1348/49 may have included other diseases, but it was clearly yersinia pestis .
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