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This major study of sixteenth-century responses to plague makes significant use of primary sources not available elsewhere. Outlining the history and development of plague legislation, and looking in detail at its application, it teems with real people: officials desperate to keep plague out of the city, physicians, barbers, priests, and gravediggers coping with the diseased and dying, and humble victims of the disease. David Gentilcore, University of Leicester

Studying an extraordinarily rich set of documents in Dubrovnik, the authors bring scholarly attention to an early public health office dedicated to surveillance and containment of plague epidemics. Social and medical historians will find this work very valuable. Ann G. Carmichael, Indiana University

Illustrated as it is with plans and photographs, and extensive selections from the rich city archives, the result is a book which will be welcomed by urban historians as much as by historians of plague. [Its] great value lies in its depiction of a city-s Studying an extraordinarily rich set of documents in Dubrovnik, the authors bring scholarly attention to an early public health office dedicated to surveillance and containment of plague epidemics. Social and medical historians will find this work very valuable. Ann G. Carmichael, Indiana University

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Zlata Blazina Tomic is a medical historian who worked at McGill University's Osler Library. Vesna Blazina is a translator and librarian who worked at the Universite de Montreal.

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