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Paul Fürst, engraving, c. 1721, of a plague doctor of Marseilles. However, though the beak mask has become an iconic symbol of the Black Death, there is no evidence it was actually worn during the 14th Century epidemic. Medical historians have in fact attributed the invention of the ‘beak doctor’ costume to a French doctor named Charles de ...
The plague returned to London with a vengeance in 1665. The first cases occurred in the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields, outside the city walls, in the early spring. The death rate rose swiftly and the infection spread so rapidly that in April King Charles II prorogued parliament so that the lords and the MPs could flee the city.
There is no historical evidence that King Arthur existed. Historical records from the Dark Ages are almost non-existent, therefore little is known about 5 th and 6 th Century Britain – the time King Arthur supposedly established the Knights of the Round Table, defeated the Saxons, and built an empire.
A man seated holding a child plague victim, a woman is holding back another man. Chalk drawing by E.M. Ward, 1848. “They were well aware of the perils of the plague […] but it wasn’t until the 19th century that the source of the plague was discovered,” explains local historian Francine Clifford.
His features are chilled into a graveyard mask that makes him seem the very spirit of evil.” François Duvalier and his wife Simone in 1957 One story recounted in Haiti: Past, Present, Future by Timothy DeTellis involves Duvalier travelling to Trou Forban, a cave believed since the time of the French plantations to be the home of powerful ...
After Crécy, the French signed a truce with the English that was prolonged by the outbreak of the Black Death but by the summer of 1350 the war resumed. English plans for an Anglo-Castilian marriage alliance involving Edward’s sister Joan fell apart when she died of the plague.
Previously they fought the signs of scarring now of ageing. In the case of plague cures, or rather preventatives, galbanum, civet, oilbanum (frankincense) were all used to ward off plague and can now be found in Chanel 5 and 19, Guerlain’s Shalimar and Chamade and the majority of the world’s best selling and most sought after designer perfumes.
Bubonic Plague. Another great epidemic to frequently blight Tudor England, the Great Plague of 1499-1500 was over, but localised outbreaks were still being recorded – this could well match reports of “a great sickness” in the Ludlow area.
The friars were Mr Drury and Thomas Cobham.” It is not clear whether this contest between Germans (Protestants) and Catholic friars was, in fact, devised to ridicule the Catholic Church. This mock combat was followed by a mask of men and a mask of women, and then a banquet of 120 dishes. “This was the end of Christmas”, is how the account ...
The Second Anglo-Dutch War was a total disaster for England, made worse by the plague visitation of 1665 and the Great Fire of London the following year. Most of the fighting took place in the North Sea, where a series of bruising naval battles proved immensely costly in ships and men to both sides, but culminated in a humiliating Dutch raid on ...