Miscellaneous
"Thus this month ends with great sadness upon the publick, through the greatness of the plague every where through the kingdom almost. Every day sadder and sadder news of its encrease. In the City died this week 7,496 and of them 6,102 of the plague. But it is feared that the true number of the dead, this week is near 10,000; partly from the poor that cannot be taken notice of, through the greatness of the number, and partly from the Quakers and others that will not have any bell ring for them." So wrote Samuel Peyps in his diary on Thursday 31 August 1665 while in London during The Great Plague. Join Ash and Sarah in this bonus episode in which they discuss how their quarantines are going and reflect on what history can teach us on hygiene, quarantine etiquette and what it was really like in London in the 17th century when facing yet another outburst of the Bubonic plague. Bibliography: Newman, Kira L. S. “Shutt Up: Bubonic Plague and Quarantine in Early Modern England.” Journal of Social History, vol. 45, no. 3, 2012, pp. 809–834., www.jstor.org/stable/41678910. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020. Slack, Paul. “The Disappearance of Plague: An Alternative View.” The Economic History Review, vol. 34, no. 3, 1981, pp. 469–476. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2595884. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020. Totaro, Rebecca C.N. “Plague's Messengers: Communicating Hope and Despair in England 1550-1750.” Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences, vol. 89, no. 1/2, 2003, pp. 87–95. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/24531515. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020. Hammill, Graham. “MIRACLES AND PLAGUES: Plague Discourse as Political Thought.” Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies, vol. 10, no. 2, 2010, pp. 85–104. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/23242142. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020. Theilmann, John, and Frances Cate. “A Plague of Plagues: The Problem of Plague Diagnosis in Medieval England.” The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, vol. 37, no. 3, 2007, pp. 371–393. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/4139605. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020. MUNRO, IAN. “The City and Its Double: Plague Time in Early Modern London.” English Literary Renaissance, vol. 30, no. 2, 2000, pp. 241–261. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/43447603. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020. HINES, KATHLEEN. “Contagious Metaphors: Liturgies of Early Modern Plague.” The Comparatist, vol. 42, 2018, pp. 318–330. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/26533661. Accessed 6 Apr. 2020.