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What a wretched title for a post: Pilgrimage, plagues and pandemics. It’s clear from the historical record of the Middle Ages that pilgrims were one of the vectors for the spread of the Black Death or Bubonic Plague. According to a recent study of the Center for Scientific Research in which 1,311 medieval settlements haveContinue reading “Pilgrimage, plagues and pandemics”