Manners, customs, and dress during the Middle Ages and during the Renaissance period (1870)
Jacob, P. L., 1806-1884 · London : Bickers and Son · leaf 274
main (Figs. 109 and 170). They threw wonderful somersaults, they leaped through hoops placed at certain distances from one another, they played with knives, slings, baskets, brass balls, and earthenware plates, and they walked on their hands with their feet in the air or with their heads turned… … Fig. 170. — Sword-dance to the sound of the Bagpipe. — Fac-simile of a Manuscript in the British Museum (Fourteenth Century). Cathedral of Rouen we find this Jewish dancer turning somersaults before Herod, so as to fascinate him, and thus obtain the decapitation of John the Baptist. " The…
Middle Ages · Renaissance · Manners and customs · Costume
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