Wonders of bodily strength and skill : in all ages and all countries (1873)
Depping, Guillaume, 1829-1901, Russell, Charles, tr · New York : Scribner, Armstrong & Co. · leaf 178
and upon them, says ROPE DANCERS IN THE MIDDLE AGES. 171 St Chrysostom, the performers must either ascend ordescend. One ill-directed glance, the slightest lapse ofattention, and the acrobat was precipitated into theorchestra. The dancers who performed before the Greeksof the Lower Empire were most… … Rope Dancer. (From a picture at Herculaneum.) many did not dare to look at, and which others could onlybehold with fear and trembling. At the breaking up of the Roman power rope-dancingwas not discontinued, and the historian finds it flourishingamong the Franks at the great markets and fairs, which…
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