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, when the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling figure emerged from the: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, bizarre coat of waxed cloth and a distinctive mask constructed from leather, he emerged a symbol of both fear and illusory hope. These masks, regularly equipped with glass, were imagined

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