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- who: Evaluating early modern lockdowns et al. from the London School of Economics have published the paper: Evaluating early modern lockdowns: Household quarantine in Bristol, 1565-1604, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 23/06/1603
- what: The analysis reveals quarantine was enforced in 1603-4 with unprecedented vigour. Beginning in the 1970s with the work of Pullan, historians argued that urban elites and medical authorities, concerned with increasing levels of urban poverty, came to perceive the poor and marginal as a threat to social order and as the chief sources of plague epidemics . This sample . . .
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