That's a good point Lighter; especially with a dwindling audience.


Apparently at least one troubador did write about the black death. I quote Wikipedia:

"There was one troubadour, writing in the lyric style long out of fashion, who was active in 1348. Peire Lunel de Montech composed the sorrowful sirventes "Meravilhar no·s devo pas las gens" during the height of the plague in Toulouse.".

The lyrics can be found here: Meravilhar no·s devo pas las gens


I had a look at the English Broadside Ballads Archive. There are 292 entries in the affliction/health category but on a quick look through the titles they were mostly about lovers; none that I could see looked genuinely plague-related (except maybe Jerusalem). In the death category there were 761 entries. I only glanced at the first 50 or so of these (some spiritual discussions there); but it might be worth going through them all. (Thanks to the long explanatory subtitles you can ignore many without needing to look at them)

Mick