black plague

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Historian Barbara Tuchman wrote that in the wake of the Black Plague, survivors found themselves “neither destroyed nor improved,” and we are still in the process of identifying our change through negative definitions.

From Los Angeles Times

And in some ways, some of our worst thinking now — especially with it comes to the coronavirus and anti-science ideas — is far worse than anything folks did during the Black Plague.

From Washington Post

As briefly mentioned earlier, the Black Plague drew attention to how medieval practitioners of medicine usually had no idea what they were doing.

From Salon

With his rodent-like teeth, elongated fingers and skeletal silhouette, the terrifying vampire not only looks like a rat, widely known as the deliverer of the Black Plague — he also exits his coffin surrounded by them.

From New York Times

That sense of helplessness makes Guarnieri, who often dresses head-to-toe in black, feel as useless as a 14th-century doctor confronting the Black Plague without any useful medication.

From Washington Post