Karen Jillings is Senior Lecturer in History at Massey University, New Zealand, where she has taught since 2004. She has published on aspects of medicine and society in pre-modern Scotland.

• Chapter 1 Setting the scene: Aberdeen and the north-east, Chapter 2 Responses to plague in Scotland, Chapter 3 Plague in Aberdeen before 1550, Chapter 4 Plague in Aberdeen after 1550, Chapter 5 Aberdeen’s final plague: the outbreak of 1647–48, Chapter 6 Conclusion

Karen Jillings is Senior Lecturer in History at Massey University, New Zealand, where she has taught since 2004. She has published on aspects of medicine and society in pre-modern Scotland.

• Chapter 1 Setting the scene: Aberdeen and the north-east, Chapter 2 Responses to plague in Scotland, Chapter 3 Plague in Aberdeen before 1550, Chapter 4 Plague in Aberdeen after 1550, Chapter 5 Aberdeen’s final plague: the outbreak of 1647–48, Chapter 6 Conclusion

Karen Jillings is Senior Lecturer in History at Massey University, New Zealand, where she has taught since 2004. She has published on aspects of medicine and society in pre-modern Scotland.

• Chapter 1 Setting the scene: Aberdeen and the north-east, Chapter 2 Responses to plague in Scotland, Chapter 3 Plague in Aberdeen before 1550, Chapter 4 Plague in Aberdeen after 1550, Chapter 5 Aberdeen’s final plague: the outbreak of 1647–48, Chapter 6 Conclusion