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Title: Plague and pestilence in literature and art

Author: Sir Raymond Henry Payne Crawfurd

Release date: February 13, 2021 [eBook #64547]
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Language: English

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PLAGUE AND PESTILENCE
IN LITERATURE AND ART

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

LONDON EDINBURGH GLASGOW NEW YORK
TORONTO MELBOURNE BOMBAY

HUMPHREY MILFORD M.A.

PUBLISHER TO THE UNIVERSITY

FRONTISPIECE

S. SEBASTIAN. BY SODOMA

PLAGUE
AND
PESTILENCE
IN
LITERATURE AND ART

BY
RAYMOND CRAWFURD

M.A., M.D. OXON., F.R.C.P.
FELLOW OF KING’S COLLEGE, LONDON

OXFORD
AT THE CLARENDON PRESS
1914