Based on the FitzPatrick Lectures given at the Royal College of Physicians in 1912, this study gathers what poets, historians, painters and sculptors made of epidemic disease from ancient Greece through the Black Death and later plagues. Crawfurd tries to explain as well as record: how people understood pestilence, whom they blamed, and the saints and images they turned to.
A humane, learned history that reads with new force after our own pandemic years. Download the free EPUB.