Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture

Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture

New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion

Schattner, Angela; Mallinckrodt, Rebekka von

Taylor & Francis Ltd

08/2022

286

Mole

Inglês

9781032402475

15 a 20 dias

417

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List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Rebekka v. Mallinckrodt and Angela Schattner

I: What Sports? Tracing Early Modern Sports Practices

1 The Invention of Sports: Early Modern Ball Games

Wolfgang Behringer

2 Sport and Recreation in Sixteenth-Century England: The Evidence of Accidental Deaths

Steven Gunn and Tomasz Gromelski

3 Putting Sports in Place: Sports Venues in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England and their Social Significance

Angela Schattner

II: Sport for Money and Glory? Commercialisation and Professionalisation

4 The Capital of Tennis: Jeux de Paume as Urban Sport Facilities in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Paris

Christian Jaser

5 The Bruising Business: Pugilism, Commercial Culture and Celebrity, 1700-1750

Benjamin Litherland

6 An 'Art and a Science': Eighteenth-Century Sports Training

David Day

III: Promoting Health or Danger? Physical Exercise under Scrutiny

7 Exercise for Women

Alessandro Arcangeli

8 Healthy, 'Decorous' and Pleasant Exercise: Competing Models and Practices of the Italian Nobility (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)

Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey

9 Exercise, Health and Gender: Normative Discourses and Practices in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German-Speaking Countries

Martin Dinges

IV: Enhancing or Endangering Status and Identity?

10 Masculine and Political Identity in German Martial Sports

B. Ann Tlusty

11 French Enlightenment Swimming

Rebekka v. Mallinckrodt

12 Swordsmanship and Society in Early Modern Japan

Michael Wert

Index
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Young Men;Alessandro Arcangeli;Sir Robert Dallington;Angela Schattner;Hieronymus Mercurialis;B. Ann Tlusty;Early Modern Sports;Benjamin Litherland;Jeux De Paume;Christian Jaser;Von Der Pfalz;David Day;Hippolytus Guarinonius;Martin Dinges;Tennis Courts;Michael Wert;Inquest Reports;Rebekka V. Mallinckrodt;Swimming Manuals;Sandra Cavallo;Tennis Economics;Steven Gunn;Long Sword;Tessa Storey;Martial Sports;Tomasz Gromelski;Parisian Cityscape;Wolfgang Behringer;Adversary's Left Hand;Les Halles;Shooting Matches;Ball Rooms;Hay Market;Localize Sports Practices;Bear Gardens;Edward III;Harvard Art Museums;Parisian Burgher;Drinking Establishments