Medieval dancers and performers

Girl dancing on the shoulders of a bagpiper, 13th century, man playing a pipe while dancing on stilts, 13th century (top), tumbler preparing to leap through a hoop held by two others, 14th century (middle) and posture master hanging from a pole, 14th century (bottom). Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876

Bagpiper Contortionist Hoop Pastimes Posture Stilts Strutt Tumbler

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