Plague: Failures of Government, Lock-downs and Economy in Suspension in Sixteenth-Century Perth
Plague: Failures of Government, Lock-downs and Economy in Suspension in Sixteenth-Century Perth. Professor Richard Oram. There has been some suggestion that Perth may have escaped some of the worst impacts of later episodes of plague, mainly on the basis that there is less written evidence for recurrent epidemics there than, say, Edinburgh or Stirling.…