MASKS OF MORTALITY: PLAGUE DOCTORS AND THE BLACK DEATH

Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death

In this grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, during the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling figure emerged from its: the plague doctor. Clad a long, macabre coat of greased cloth and a distinctive mask constructed from leather, it became a omen of both fear and fleeting hope. These masks, regularly bearing glass, were believed to filt

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