Sports and physical exercise in early modern culture : new perspectives on the history of sports and motion /
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London ; New York :
Ashgate,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 / Tomasz Gromelski
- 3. Putting Sports in Place: Sports Venues in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England and their Social Significance / Angela Schattner
- pt. 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 / 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
- pt. III PROMOTING HEALTH OR DANGER? PHYSICAL EXERCISE UNDER SCRUTINY
- 7. Exercise for Women / Alessandro Arcangeli
- 8. Healthy, `Decorous' and Pleasant Exercise: Competing Models and the Practices of the Italian Nobility (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries) / Tessa Storey
- 9. Exercise, Health and Gender: Normative Discourses and Practices in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century German-Speaking Countries / Martin Dinges
- pt. 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.