MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In a grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, when the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling specter emerged from the: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, bizarre coat of oiled cloth and a unusual mask designed from leather, it emerged a representation of both fear and illusory hope. They masks, often bearing eyes, were imagined to filter the fo

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