MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In a grim epoch of devastating pestilence, as the Black Death swept across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the shadows: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of waxed cloth and a alarming mask designed from leather, it became a omen of both fear and temporary hope. They masks, regularly equipped with peepholes, were imagined to

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