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Darrera modificació: 2025-04-24
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Black, Winston E., "Dark Arts of the Plague Doctors", All About History, 81 (2029), 28-37.
- Resum
- You've seen him before: a mysterious figure, clad from head to toe in oiled Moroccan leather, wearing goggles and a beaked mask. He looks like a cross between a steampunk crow and the Grim Reaper. He's usually called a 'plague doctor' and a quick search online will turn up thousands of examples. Some of these images and costumes claim to represent genuine historical artefacts, while many others are new creations for Halloween and roleplaying. Thanks to the popularity of this costume, it has come to represent for modern audiences both the terrors of the Black Death and the foreignness of medieval medicine. But this sort of plague doctor did not appear until well after the Middle Ages, some three centuries after the Black Death first struck in the 1340s. There may have been a few doctors in the 17th and 18th centuries who wore this outfit, but most medieval and Early Modern physicians who studied and treated the plague did not. Nor was there a single class of physician in the later medieval and Early Modern periods, who could be represented by a single outfit. Plague prevention and care came from university-trained physicians, surgeons, barbers, apothecaries, midwives, herbalists, priests, miracle-workers and a range of charlatans.
- Matèries
- Medicina - Pesta i altres malalties
Història de la tècnica
Divulgació
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/128938619/Black_Dark_Arts_ ...
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