UID:
almafu_9961565852202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (272 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-315-61044-2
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1-317-05100-9
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1-317-05101-7
Inhalt:
It is often assumed that a recognisably modern sporting culture did not emerge until the eighteenth century. The plethora of physical training and games that existed before 1700 tend to fall victim to rigid historical boundaries drawn between "modern" and "pre-modern" sports. Adopting a much broader and culturally based approach, the essays in this collection offer an alternative view of sport in the early modern period. Taking into account a variety of competitive as well as non-competitive forms of sport, physical training and games, the collection situates these types of activities as institutions in their own right within the socio-cultural context of early-modern Europe.
Anmerkung:
Previously issued in print: Farnham: Ashgate, 2016.
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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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1-4724-1194-3
Sprache:
Englisch
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