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Plague and pestilence in literature and art / by Raymond Crawfurd.

"Quell'ingordissima fiera" : letteratura e storia della peste in terra di Bari / Pietro Sisto.

La peste à Barcelone : en marge de l'histoire politique et littéraire de la France sous la Restauration / par Léon-François Hoffmann.

Writing plague in early modern England and beyond : medicine, literature, continuity and change /Nushan Gunawardana.

Understanding plague : the medical and imaginative texts of medieval Spain / by Randal Paul Garza.

The historical sources of Defoe's Journal of the plague year : illustrated by extracts from the original documents in the Burney collection and manuscript room in the British Museum / [Watson Nicholson].

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"Quell'ingordissima fiera" : letteratura e storia della peste in terra di Bari / Pietro Sisto.

La peste à Barcelone : en marge de l'histoire politique et littéraire de la France sous la Restauration / par Léon-François Hoffmann.

Writing plague in early modern England and beyond : medicine, literature, continuity and change /Nushan Gunawardana.

Understanding plague : the medical and imaginative texts of medieval Spain / by Randal Paul Garza.

The historical sources of Defoe's Journal of the plague year : illustrated by extracts from the original documents in the Burney collection and manuscript room in the British Museum / [Watson Nicholson].