Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596-1601 by Ruth MacKay

Life in a Time of Pestilence: The Great Castilian Plague of 1596-1601

Ruth MacKay

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From the Middle Ages onwards, deadly epidemics swept through portions of Spain repeatedly, but the Castilian Plague at the end of the sixteenth century was especially terrible. In late 1596, a ship carrying the plague docked in Santander, and over...

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