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"Runaways fleeing from the plague," a woodcut from 'A Looking-glasse for City and Countrey,' printed by H. Gosson in 1630. Ute Lotz-Heumman, director of the UArizona Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, said that when rich people can leave (Credit: Wellcome Images) "Runaways fleeing from the plague," a woodcut from 'A Looking-glasse for City and Countrey,' printed by H. Gosson in 1630. Ute Lotz-Heumman, director of the UArizona Division for Late Medieval and Reformation Studies, said that when rich people can leave town to flee a pandemic, either now or in the past, you immediately have a social divide.