Daniel DeFoe’s “Journal of the Plague Years” is a great chronicle of the plague in London. Its a dry read but just chock full of trivia.
A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuckman is also a good read. It covers from the middle of the 14th Century (around 1350 when the plague years began to the end of that century. The rarity of sensible leadership in a number of European areas is quite notable. Leadership was mostly ceremony and showmanship.