MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In a grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, during the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from its: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of greased cloth and a alarming mask fashioned from leather, they became a symbol of both fear and temporary hope. Their masks, regularly bearing peepholes, were imagined

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