Epidemic: Plague

Briest, S. 2022

‘“The graves when they open, will be witnesses against thee”: mass burial and the agency of the dead in Thomas Dekker’s Plague Pamphlets’, in E. Weiss-Krejci, S. Becker and P. Schwyzer (eds) Interdisciplinary Exploration of Postmortem Interaction: Dead Bodies, Funerary Objects, and Burial Spaces through Texts and Time, New York: Springer, 249-268.

Castex, D. & Kacki, S. 2022

‘“Bring out your dead”: funerary and public health practices in times of epidemic disease’ in C. Knüsel & E. Schotsmans (eds) Routledge Handbook of Archeothanatology, Routledge, 331-252.

Flavel, A. & Franklin, D. 2021-2022

‘Camposanto: a cemetery in the Venetian lagoon’, Mediterranean Archaeology, 34/35, 169-180.

Harding, V. 1993

‘Burial of the plague dead in early modern London’ in J. Champion (ed.) Epidemic Disease in London, Centre for Metropolitan History Working Papers Series 1, 53-64.

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