Games unknown, 14th century. Performers dressed as monks and nuns playing the game of hippas or piggyback wrestling (the monks have blue hair and no tonsure).

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Games unknown, 14th century. Performers dressed as monks and nuns playing the game of hippas or piggyback wrestling (the monks have blue hair and no tonsure). Handcoloured lithograph by Joseph Strutt from his own Sports and Pastimes of the People of England, Chatto and Windus, London, 1876.

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Size: 8383px × 3520px
Photo credit: © Florilegius / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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