EditorialMedieval trained animals: bear doing a headstand, hare with tabor (top), juggler and tumbling monkey, monkey jockey on a muzzled bear (middle) and cock dancing on stilts to music of tabor and pipes (bottom). Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt fro...
EditorialMedieval performing animals: a bear doing a headstand, and a hare with tabor drum, 13th century. Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.