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Sports and Games of the Renaissance

Author : Andrew Leibs
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313327726
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Sports and Games of the Renaissance written by Andrew Leibs and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2004-10-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Renaissance was a period of extraordinary spirit and development that marked a critical stage in the history of sports and games. In Europe the development of a moneyed economy and more refined methods of timekeeping ushered in a new era of leisure and leisure-activity, in which the old tradition of the Shrove Tuesday Football match deepened in the cultural consciousness. In Asia, Sumo's gradual codification began to develop alongside ancestors of the modern game of hackey-sack. In North and South America, European explorers saw how traditional team sports and games such as lacrosse and pelota could serve as an integrating and uniting phenomenon. Series editor Andrew Leibs provides narrative chapters on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, and Oceania, each of which shows how modern-day form of recreation evolved during the Renaissance. In addition, readers will learn how to play games that had been previously lost to history. This volume is the latest installment in the Sports and Games Through History series. Each geographically arranged chapter describes sports, games, and rituals of play, along with descriptions on equipment and instructions for making or adapting game pieces.

Sports and Games of Medieval Cultures

Author : Sally Wilkins
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313317119
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Sports and Games of Medieval Cultures written by Sally Wilkins and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002-04-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies sports, games, and play from cultures around the world that were invented and played during medieval times.

The Culture of Sports in the Harlem Renaissance

Author : Daniel Anderson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147662898X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book The Culture of Sports in the Harlem Renaissance written by Daniel Anderson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2017-03-21 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the African American cultural resurgence of the 1920s and 1930s, professional athletes shared the spotlight with artists and intellectuals. Negro League baseball teams played in New York City’s major-league stadiums and basketball clubs shared the bill with jazz bands at late night casinos. Yet sports rarely appear in the literature on the Harlem Renaissance. Although the black intelligentsia largely dismissed the popularity of sports, the press celebrated athletics as a means to participate in the debates of the day. A few prominent writers, such as Claude McKay and James Weldon Johnson, used sports in distinctive ways to communicate their vision of the Renaissance. Meanwhile, the writers of the Harlem press promoted sports with community consciousness, insightful analysis and a playful love of language, and argued for their importance in the fight for racial equality.

Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries

Author : Robert Crego
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries written by Robert Crego and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2003-01-30 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historical overview and description of popular sports and games from around the world played during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Author : Vanina Kopp
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782503588728
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (887 download)

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Download or read book Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Vanina Kopp and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, games were not an idle pastime, but were in fact important tools for exploring, transmitting, enhancing, subverting, and challenging social practices and their rules. Their study, through both visual and material sources, offers a unique insight into medieval and early modern gaming culture, shedding light not only on why, where, when, with whom and in what conditions and circumstances people played games, but also on the variety of interpretations that they had of games and play. Representations of games, and of artefacts associated with games, also often served to communicate complex ideas on topics that ranged from war to love, and from politics to theology.00This volume offers a particular focus onto the type of games that required little or no physical exertion and that, consequently, all people could enjoy, regardless of age, gender, status, occupation, or religion. The representations and artefacts discussed here by contributors, who come from varied disciplines including history, literary studies, art history, and archaeology, cover a wide geographical and chronological range, from Spain to Scandinavia to the Ottoman Turkey and from the early medieval period to the seventeenth century and beyond. Far from offering the ?last word? on the subject, it is hoped that this volume will encourage further studies.

Body and Mind

Author : John McClelland
Publisher : Sport in the Global Society
ISBN 13 : 9780714653570
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book Body and Mind written by John McClelland and published by Sport in the Global Society. This book was released on 2007 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to address the gap in the literature linking the physical culture of the ancient world with the beginnings of modern sport, this original book traces the history of the evolution of a variety of sport, games and physical education from 450-1650AD across Western Europe. Drawing on primary sources, this book takes a thematic approach, looking at the changing nature of geopolitical structures, educational systems, religious institutions and the practice of warfare and medicine and goes on to trace the disappearance of ancient physical culture with its gymnasia, gladiators and chariot races, the invention of a new physical culture based on chivalry around 1000AD, the transformation of that culture in the Renaissance, and its disappearance around 1650 under the influences of new science. Offering a new and original perspective on the relationship between sport and society, this unique study will be of great interest to all historians of sport and culture.

Body and Mind

Author : John McClelland
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135773246
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (357 download)

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Download or read book Body and Mind written by John McClelland and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-01-24 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes and analyzes the varieties of sport, games and physical education practiced in Western Europe between 450-1650 AD in their historical and cultural context.

The Philosophers' Game

Author : Ann Elizabeth Moyer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472112289
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Philosophers' Game written by Ann Elizabeth Moyer and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the history of a mathematical board game played in medieval and Renaissance Europe

The Renaissance Art Game

Author : Wenda B. O'Reilly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781889613024
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Renaissance Art Game written by Wenda B. O'Reilly and published by . This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover 5 great Renaissance artists as you play 2 fun card games: Go Fish and a new version of Concentration. Collect 6 works of art by da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael, Fra Angelico, and Botticelli as you play. Learn the story behind each painting in the 76-page full-color book that comes with the game.

Sports Spectators

Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231064012
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Sports Spectators written by Allen Guttmann and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his previous books Allen Guttmann has provided incisive perspectives on Avery Brundage's role in the Olympic movement and on the nature of modern sports. Now, in his latest book, the accomplished historian of sport turns his attention from the playing field to the grandstand. Sports Spectators, the first historical study of the subject from antiquity to today, is at once erudite and entertaining; comprehensive and succint. Guttmann first examines the history of sports spectators, starting with Ancient Greece and Rome. He then moves on to the Renaissance and traces three early sports -the tournament, archery, and early versions of football. The author then focuses on the emergenece of sports in post-Renaissance England, and discusses the curious spectacle of animal sports (bear- and bull-baiting and cockfighting), as well as the first appearance of combat sports such as sword fighting, stick fighting, and boxing. The book concludes its historical view by exploring contemporary baseball, football, rowing, tennis, and golf. From his chronological narrative, Guttmann shifts to detailed analysis of the economic, sociological, and psychological aspects of sports spectatorship. Who were, and are, sports spectators? What is their gender and social class? Have they normally been participants as well as fans? What are the political functions of sports-watching? What are the social dynamics of spectatorship? Guttmann provides fresh insights which will be useful to scholars and fascinating to everyone. Sports Spectators also looks at the dramatic transformations radio and television have made, and offers an incisive critique of today's sports-related violence, including the increasingly frequent incidences of spectator hooliganism. How violent (or peaceful) have spectators traditionally been? Has spectator violence increased or decreased? You needn't be a season ticket-holder to enjoy Sports Spectators. Allen Guttmann makes the history of fandom come alive for any reader interested in Western culture and what forms of entertainment reveal about us, as well as those concerned with the recent growth of spectator violence.

Separate Games

Author : David K. Wiggins
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
ISBN 13 : 1682260178
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Separate Games written by David K. Wiggins and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hardening of racial lines during the first half of the twentieth century eliminated almost all African Americans from white organized sports, forcing black athletes to form their own teams, organizations, and events. This separate sporting culture, explored in the twelve essays included here, comprised much more than athletic competition; these "separate games" provided examples of black enterprise and black self-help and showed the importance of agency and the quest for racial uplift in a country fraught with racialist thinking and discrimination.

Sports

Author : Allen Guttmann
Publisher : Univ of Massachusetts Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sports written by Allen Guttmann and published by Univ of Massachusetts Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From ancient Egyptian archery and medieval Japanese football to contemporary American baseball, sports have been shaped by - and in turn have helped shape - the culture of which it is part. This work traces this evolution across continents, cultures, and historical epochs to construct a single comprehensive narrative of the world's sports.

Catholic Perspectives on Sports

Author : Patrick Kelly
Publisher : Paulist Press
ISBN 13 : 0809147955
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Catholic Perspectives on Sports written by Patrick Kelly and published by Paulist Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to author Patrick Kelly, Catholics have always engaged in play and sports. During the Middle Ages, games and sports were played on feast days and Sundays, and these activities are shown in prayer books, in woodcuts, and on stained-glass windows in churches and cathedrals. Contrary to the view of some sports historians, pre-Reformation Christians did not "loathe the flesh" but instead insisted on the unity of body and soul. Book jacket.

A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance

Author : Alessandro Arcangeli
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350283037
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance written by Alessandro Arcangeli and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650. Outwardly, Renaissance sports resembled their medieval forebears, but the incorporation of athletics into the educational curriculum signalled a change. As part of the scientific revolution, sport now became the object of intellectual analysis. Numerous books were written on the medical benefits of sport and on the best way to joust, fence, train horses and ride, play ball games, swim, practice archery, wrestle, or become an acrobat. Sport became the visible sign of the mind's control over the physical body, such control often becoming an end in itself with some sports shaped more by decorum than exercise. The 6 volume set of the Cultural History of Sport presents the first comprehensive history from classical antiquity to today, covering all forms and aspects of sport and its ever-changing social, cultural, political, and economic context and impact. The themes covered in each volume are the purpose of sport; sporting time and sporting space; products, training and technology; rules and order; conflict and accommodation; inclusion, exclusion and segregation; minds, bodies and identities; representation. Alessandro Arcangeli is Associate Professor at the University of Verona, Italy. Volume 3 in the Cultural History of Sport set General Editors: Wray Vamplew, Mark Dyreson, and John McClelland

Royal Tennis in Renaissance Italy

Author : Cees de Bondt
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Royal Tennis in Renaissance Italy written by Cees de Bondt and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Italy has a long history of competitive games and sports, which was to a great extent inspired by the athletic contests of Antiquity. The human educators and the Renaissance rulers attempted to recreate the grandeur of Imperial Rome. Athletic excellence became an equally strong component of Italian culture during the Renaissance as in ancient Greece and Rome. Italy was the place to be for spectators and to train to be proficient in a variety of physical exercises. The main focus of this study is on how Renaissance Italy became the playground where royal tennis, the ancestor of the modern game, developed into a high cultural form of private court entertainment. The book regularly quotes from the text of the first book on tennis, Antonio Scaino's Trattato del giuoco della palla (Treatise of the Ball Game) of 1555 which was written as an instructive manual for the ballplaying courtier. Scaino's introduction of tennis laws enabled the aristocracy to draw a line between themselves and the populace who continued to play a crude type of the game in the streets.

Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance

Author : Gregory M. Colón Semenza
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874138443
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance written by Gregory M. Colón Semenza and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the crucial relationship between sport and the political and imaginative literature of Renaissance England. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, educators, medical practitioners, and military scientists were among the many contemporaries who praised sport as necessary and functional - physiologically beneficial to the individual practitioner, vital to the preparedness of the military, and necessary to the maintenance of traditional class hierarchy. Sport's significance in the period is perhaps best registered by its literal and metaphorical centrality in such popular works of literature as Shakespeare's histories, Walton's Compleat Angler, and Milton's Samson Agonistes, as well as its prominence in ecclesiastical and secular legislation and polemics. By reconstructing a cultural history of sport and investigating representations of it in contemporary prose, poetry, and drama, the book demonstrates sport's pivotal position in the interlocking spheres of Renaissance science, politics, and art. Gregory M. Colon Semenza is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Connecticut.

Playing with God

Author : William J Baker
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674020448
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Playing with God written by William J Baker and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like no other nation on earth, Americans eagerly blend their religion and sports. This book traces this dynamic relationship from the Puritan condemnation of games as sinful in the seventeenth century to the near deification of athletic contests in our own day.