Here is what the page “How Rabbits Went from Medieval Royal Luxury to Commonplace After the Black Death” contains. The European rabbit, now ubiquitous across the British countryside, was once a rare and expensive delicacy reserved for English royalty and the nobility. Archaeological evidence from sites such as Launceston Castle in Cornwall reveals that rabbits were introduced to Britain by the Normans in the 12th century and initially kept in carefully managed warrens. Their meat and fur were luxury items, with a single rabbit fetching a price equivalent to a day's wages for a skilled laborer.
This exclusivity began to change dramatically after the Black Death in the mid-14th century. The plague's massive depopulation led to labor shortages and the abandonment of marginal farmland, which allowed rabbit warrens to expand beyond aristocratic control. As rabbits escaped and bred rapidly in the wild, their population exploded, and they became a cheap source of protein for common people. This listing links straight to the original page, where the content is available in full.