Lori Jones
Historian and academic specializing in disease and the environment in the medieval and early modern worlds, author of Patterns of Plague and editor of several volumes on disease history.
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Apr 2, 2026 • 46min
Patterns of Plague with Lori Jones
Lori Jones, historian of disease and the environment, explores how plague writings changed across medieval and early modern Europe. She discusses where tracts were found and copied, shifts from theory to practical prevention, printing’s role in spreading advice, surprising religious turns after the Reformation, and how blame and politics shaped narratives about contagion.
