The Morality Cure: Religion and the Great Plague, 1665

For many religious folk, the Great Plague was a divine punishment for the a sinful city. Professor Harding looks at how some churches responded to the disease.

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Professor Vanessa Harding

Professor Vanessa Harding is based at the Department of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London.  Her main areas of research lie in medieval...

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