#9- Not an Ordinary Rabbit

As we begin the Year of the Rabbit, we explore the fantastical medieval and Renaissance rabbit from jousting rabbits in manuscript illustrations to the Rabbit Woman of Godalming. 

 Sources 

  

Mist’s Weekly Journal , 19 November 1726.

Edward Topsell, A Historie of Foure Footed Beasts. London, 1658 (first edition was 1607).

John Heywood, A fourth hundred of epygrams, newly invented, #15.London, 1560.

Bejamin Smart. A New Pronouncing Dictionary of the English Language. London, 1836.