Article ID: CBB000081706

Searchers of the dead: Authority, marginality, and the interpretation of plague in England, 1574-1665 (1999)

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Description “Searchers of the dead, women pensioners hired to examine and codify diseased bodies, were significant figures in the management of early modern plague epidemics.” From the abstract.


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Authors & Contributors
Grell, Ole Peter
Todd, Malcolm
Stieve, Edwin M.
Slack, Paul
Ross, Cheryl Lynn
Platt, Colin
Journals
Medical History
Scottish Geographical Magazine
Renaissance Quarterly
Past and Present
Journal of Interdisciplinary History
Journal of British Studies
Publishers
Watkins
University College London Press
S. S. R. C. Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
Routledge & Kegan Paul
Centre for Metropolitan History
University of Pittsburgh
Concepts
Plague
Prayer; praying
Databases
People
Thomson, George
Jonson, Ben
Time Periods
17th century
Medieval
Renaissance
Places
British Isles
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