This article analyses the cheap broadsides with 'Lord Have Mercy Upon Us', or some variant thereof, in their title which developed in late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London, a genre which has been largely ignored by medical historians and by literary scholars interested in the representation of epidemic disease. It pays particular attention to the materiality of these texts, stressing that they should be analysed as cultural artefacts in their own right and not simply as sources of information about pestilence. Whereas much recent work on the cultural history of plague has emphasized the need to attend the metaphors of disease, analysis is focused much on the numerals and woodcuts on the page of each Lord Have Mercy broadsheet. Such an approach, it argues, requires us to move beyond the concentration on 'narrative' predominant in cultural histories of epidemic disease, and to embrace a more capacious sense of the visual and the graphic in order to develop a fuller understanding of the cheap print culture of the plague years
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