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stcomprehensivestudyyetpublishedoftheplainlivesofa'goldenage'.fplaguefromthefirstoutbreakoftheBlackDeathin1348tothemid-fifteenthcentury.Throughaninnovativestudyofthisevidence,ProfessorCarmichaeldevelopstworelatedstrandsofanalysis.First,shediscussestheextenttowhichtrueplagueepidemicsmayhaveoccurred,byconsideringwhatotherinfectiousdiseasescontributedsignificantlytooutbreaksof'pestilence'.Shefindsthatthereweremanydifferencesbetweenthefourteenth-andfifteenth-centuryepidemics.Shethensh