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  • Mask Panic: Past and Present

    Mask Panic: Past and Present

    Listen to the author read this essay: [audio:issue4/reid.mp3] On January 7, 1514, the Parlement of Normandy, the royal court of appeal for that prosperous French province on the Channel coast, issued a decree banning the wearing and owning of masks. “It is prohibited for all persons […] to wear or purchase any false visage, mask,…