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Not surprisingly, a vast number of treatises on the plague, in many tongues, were written in response to the Black Death. One of the earliest was by John of Burgundy, of whom almost nothing is known. It was translated into various languages and widely diffused. The following short section offers advice and, because of theContinue reading “John of Burgundy: Advice for Avoiding the Black Death – 1365”