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Sports and Games of Medieval Cultures

Author : Sally Wilkins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Sports and Games of Medieval Cultures written by Sally Wilkins and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the beginning of time, humans have created and passed on to their children sports and games that teach skills, promote leisure, and encourage friendly competition. By studying these sports and games, we learn much about the culture and traditions of our ancestors. Sports and Games of Medieval Cultures focuses on those sports, games, and play rituals from across the globe that were invented and played during the time of the Middle Ages. Teachers, students, and sports enthusiasts will enjoy discovering the early origins of their favorite sports and games, and how they have evolved into the familiar versions of today. They will also learn about many games otherwise lost to history, and find instructions on how to adapt them for modern play. As one of four books in the series Sports and Games Through History, it is divided into seven regions of the world including: Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, The Middle East, North America, and Oceania. Each section describes sports, games, and play rituals for that region, and students can compare and contrast similar sports and games from different regions. Descriptions of equipment, with instructions on making or adapting the game pieces, are given for those students who would like to recreate the games for either multicultural assignments or for fun. This unique book belongs in every library's sports history and multicultural collections.

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.

Past Times

Author : Jeffrey S. Johnston
Publisher : Blurb
ISBN 13 : 9780994850133
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Past Times written by Jeffrey S. Johnston and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past Times: Sports and Games of Medieval Europe opens the world of medieval games to the general public. Learning history has never been so fun!

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.

A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age

Author : Noel Fallows
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350283010
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age by : Noel Fallows

Download or read book A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age written by Noel Fallows and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age covers the period 600 to 1450. Lacking any viable ancient models, sport evolved into two distinct forms, divided by class. Male and female aristocrats hunted and knights engaged in jousting and tournaments, transforming increasingly outdated modes of warfare into brilliant spectacle. Meanwhile, simpler sports provided recreational distraction from the dangerously unsettled conditions of everyday life. Running, jumping, wrestling, and many ball games - soccer, cricket, baseball, golf, and tennis – had their often violent beginnings in this period. 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. Noel Fallows is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia, USA. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Sport set General Editors: Wray Vamplew, Mark Dyreson, and John McClelland

Sports and Games of the Ancients

Author : Steve Craig
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780313361203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Sports and Games of the Ancients written by Steve Craig and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on reports from 19th century explorers, museum artifacts, and other historical documents, the rules, equipment, and diagrams as they are currently understood are provided here for readers, along with suggestions for adapting these sports and games for modern times. Sports enthusiasts and students will find this volume a valuable resource for discovering the earliest beginnings of our modern-day sports. Divided according to seven geopolitical regions of the world, Sports and Games of the Ancients describes the sports, games, and play of our earliest ancestors. Their need for survival in often hostile conditions enable them to develop skills such as long distance running or archery, and these skills were then practiced in friendly competitions that evolved into our modern-day marathons and Olympic events. Covering such games as Africa's mancala and senet, the martial arts of Asia, the log run and Tejo of Latin America, and the boomerang and surfing of Oceania, this volume provides a solid picture of the sports and games of our ancient ancestors.

Drama, Play, and Game

Author : Lawrence M. Clopper
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226110303
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Drama, Play, and Game written by Lawrence M. Clopper and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How was it possible for drama, especially biblical representations, to appear in the Christian West given the church's condemnation of the theatrum of the ancient world?In a book with radical implications for the study of medieval literature, Lawrence Clopper resolves this perplexing question. Drama, Play, and Game demonstrates that the theatrum repudiated by medieval clerics was not "theater" as we understand the term today. Clopper contends that critics have misrepresented Western stage history because they have assumed that theatrum designates a place where drama is performed. While theatrum was thought of as a site of spectacle during the Middle Ages, the term was more closely connected with immodest behavior and lurid forms of festive culture. Clerics were not opposed to liturgical representations in churches, but they strove ardently to suppress May games, ludi, festivals, and liturgical parodies. Medieval drama, then, stemmed from a more vernacular tradition than previously acknowledged-one developed by England's laity outside the boundaries of clerical rule.

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.

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.

Medieval Games

Author : John M. Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (161 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Games written by John M. Carter and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first full-length scholarly narrative of sports from the fall of Rome to the end of the Middle Ages. Organized into ten chapters, the book discusses various aspects of sports and recreations in feudal society and provides a research tool for scholars and students interested in the sports history of the Middle Ages. The first chapter, The Study of Medieval Sports and Recreations, the bibliographical essay, and the bibliography should be welcome aids to anyone with an interest in further research on the subject. After the beginning chapter on the historiography of sports in the Middle Ages, the book looks at the evidence of sports and recreations in late antiquity. Next the volume focuses on the close relationship between sports and war in feudal society and examines how knights of the High Middle Ages developed and promoted sports reputations. Subsequent chapters deal with sports and the church, sports reflected in art, peasant pastimes and women's recreations. Sports Violence in Medieval Society, investigates the violence that sometimes accompanied sports or recreations. The last chapter highlights two medieval persons who have a relation to sports: William Fitzstephen, the twelfth-century writer who left a vivid account of London sports, and William Marshal, the famed tournament professional. The bibliographical essay and select bibliography close out the book. The work fills gaps in both the literature on medieval civilization and the literature of sports history.

A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age

Author : Noel Fallows
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350283029
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age written by Noel Fallows and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-08-31 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Cultural History of Sport in the Medieval Age covers the period 600 to 1450. Lacking any viable ancient models, sport evolved into two distinct forms, divided by class. Male and female aristocrats hunted and knights engaged in jousting and tournaments, transforming increasingly outdated modes of warfare into brilliant spectacle. Meanwhile, simpler sports provided recreational distraction from the dangerously unsettled conditions of everyday life. Running, jumping, wrestling, and many ball games - soccer, cricket, baseball, golf, and tennis – had their often violent beginnings in this period. 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. Noel Fallows is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia, USA. Volume 2 in the Cultural History of Sport set General Editors: Wray Vamplew, Mark Dyreson, and John McClelland

Medieval Games

Author : John Marshall Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Games written by John Marshall Carter and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 1

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110385449
Total Pages : 1223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of Medieval Culture. Volume 1 written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-08-31 with total page 1223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A follow-up publication to the Handbook of Medieval Studies, this new reference work turns to a different focus: medieval culture. Medieval research has grown tremendously in depth and breadth over the last decades. Particularly our understanding of medieval culture, of the basic living conditions, and the specific value system prevalent at that time has considerably expanded, to a point where we are in danger of no longer seeing the proverbial forest for the trees. The present, innovative handbook offers compact articles on essential topics, ideals, specific knowledge, and concepts defining the medieval world as comprehensively as possible. The topics covered in this new handbook pertain to issues such as love and marriage, belief in God, hell, and the devil, education, lordship and servitude, Christianity versus Judaism and Islam, health, medicine, the rural world, the rise of the urban class, travel, roads and bridges, entertainment, games, and sport activities, numbers, measuring, the education system, the papacy, saints, the senses, death, and money.

Ringside

Author : Scott Beekman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313026785
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Ringside written by Scott Beekman and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-06-30 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite its status as one of the oldest and most enduringly popular sports in history, wrestling has been pushed to the background of the current American sports scene. Most people today would have a hard time even considering wrestling (with some of its modern theatrics) in the same terms as track and field or boxing. But until the 1920s, wrestling stood as a legitimate professional sport in this country, and a widely practiced amateur one as well. Its past respectability may not have endured, but the advent of cable television in the 1980s offered the sport a renewed opportunity to play a determining role in American popular culture. This opportunity was not wasted, and wrestlers now assume places in politics and film at the highest levels. Ringside, the first work to fully examine the history of professional wrestling in this country, provides an illuminating and colorful account of all of the various athletes, entertainers, businessmen, and national outlooks that have determined wrestling's erratic route through American history. This chronological work begins with a brief account of wrestling's global history, and then proceeds to investigate the sport's growth as a specifically American institution. Wrestling has continued to survive in the face of technological developments, scandals, public ridicule, and a lack of centralized control, and today this supremely adaptable entertainment form represents, in sum, an international industry capable of attracting enormous television and pay-per-view audiences, along with massive amounts of advertising and merchandizing revenue. Ringside focuses on the business of wrestling as well as on the performers and their in-ring antics, and offers readers a fully nuanced examination of the development of professional wrestling in America.

Sports and Games in the Ancient World

Author : Věra Olivová
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Sports and Games in the Ancient World written by Věra Olivová and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature

Author : Serina Patterson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137497521
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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Download or read book Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature written by Serina Patterson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-29 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household.

Ancient Games

Author : Iris Volant
Publisher : Ancient Series
ISBN 13 : 9781912497348
Total Pages : 61 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (973 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Games written by Iris Volant and published by Ancient Series. This book was released on 2020-03-25 with total page 61 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the birth of the Olympics to the deadly sports of the Mayans, find out the history of the games that have kept people amused for thousands of years in this beautifully illustrated and informative guide. Find out about how people such as the Vikings entertained themselves, and how sumo wrestlers win their matches, with fascinating facts and detailed pictures.