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In medieval Europe, strange illnesses were often explained through religion, superstition, or fear of divine punishment. Yet few events were as disturbing or as poorly understood as the outbreak in ...

Plague doctors, or at least images of plague doctors, are having a bit of a cultural moment again, roughly 300 years after their actual heyday. They’ve become popular motifs for stickers, pins, masks, ...