Sports and physical exercise in early modern culture : new perspectives on the history of sports and motion
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: WHAT SPORTS? TRACING EARLY MODERN SPORTS PRACTICES -- 1 The Invention of Sports: Early Modern Ball Games -- 2 Sport and Recreation in Sixteenth-Century England:...
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| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | English |
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London New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2016
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| Schlagworte: | Sports Physical education and training |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 272 Seiten) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Table -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I: WHAT SPORTS? TRACING EARLY MODERN SPORTS PRACTICES -- 1 The Invention of Sports: Early Modern Ball Games -- 2 Sport and Recreation in Sixteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Accidental Deaths -- 3 Putting Sports in Place: Sports Venues in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England and their Social Significance -- PART II: SPORT FOR MONEY AND GLORY? COMMERCIALIZATION AND PROFESSIONALIZATION -- 4 The Capital of Tennis: Jeux de Paume as Urban Sport Facilities in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Paris -- 5 The Bruising Business: Pugilism, Commercial Culture and Celebrity, 1700-1750 -- 6 An 'Art and a Science': Eighteenth-Century Sports Training -- PART III: PROMOTING HEALTH OR DANGER? PHYSICAL EXERCISE UNDER SCRUTINY -- 7 Exercise for Women -- 8 Healthy, 'Decorous' and Pleasant Exercise: Competing Models and the Practices of the Italian Nobility (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) -- 9 Exercise, Health and Gender: Normative Discourses and Practices in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German-Speaking Countries -- PART IV: ENHANCING OR ENDANGERING STATUS AND IDENTITY? -- 10 Masculine and Political Identity in German Martial Sports -- 11 French Enlightenment Swimming -- 12 Swordsmanship and Society in Early Modern Japan -- Index |
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| Beschreibung: | "This volume arises from the conference 'Sport in Early Modern Culture' which was jointly organised and sponsored by the international network of the German Research Foundation (DFG) 'Body Techniques in the Early Modern Period' (MA 4520/2-1) and the German Historical Institute London in November 2011." (Acknowledgements) |
| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 272 Seiten) Illustrationen |
| ISBN: | 9781317051015 1317051017 9781472411945 1472411943 |