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The Strange Costumes of the Plague Doctors Who Treated 17th Century Victims of the Bubonic Plague
In the 17th and 18th centuries, what we know of as The Age of Enlightenment or early modernity, Europeans traversed the globe and returned to publish travel accounts that cast the natives they encountered as childlike beings, destitute savages, or literal monsters. Unable to make sense of alien languages and cultures, they mistook everything they […]
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