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 Male and female aristocrats hunted and knights engaged in jousting and tournaments, transforming increasingly outdated modes of warfare into brilliant spectacle.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
Author(s): Noel Fallows
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 284
City: London
Cover page
Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
SERIES PREFACE
Introduction
CRITICAL APPROACHES TO SPORT IN THE MEDIEVAL AGE
SPORT IN THE MEDIEVAL AGE
DOCUMENTED SPORTS
SPORTS AND RHETORIC
PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION
SPORTING TECHNOLOGIES
BEYOND TECHNOLOGY: THE SPORTING AESTHETIC
NOTES
CHAPTER ONE The Purpose of Sport ROBERT A. MECHIKOFF, NOEL FALLOWS, AND KEN MONDSCHEIN
RECREATION
SOCIOPOLITICAL MANEUVERING
TRAINING AND EXERCISE
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER TWO Sporting Time and Sporting Space THOMAS C. DEVANEY
NOTES
CHAPTER THREE Products, Training, and Technology JONATHAN TAVARES AND LISA W. TOM
PRODUCTS
TECHNOLOGY
TRAINING
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER FOUR Rules and Order NOEL FALLOWS
MÊLÉE TOURNAMENTS
MOUNTED TOURNEYS
JOUSTS AND PASSAGES OF ARMS
FOOT COMBATS
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER FIVE Conflict and Accommodation MICHAEL HARNEY*
CONFLICT
ACCOMMODATION
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER SIX Inclusion, Exclusion,and Segregation KEN MONDSCHEIN
GENDER DIFFERENCES
CLASS DIFFERENCES
GEOGRAPHIES OF DIFFERENCE
DIFFERENCES OF RACE AND RELIGION
MODERN MEDIEVALIST SPORTS
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER SEVEN Minds, Bodies,and Identities GRANT A. GEARHART
WOMEN AND SPORT
MEN AND SPORT
SPORT AND THE CHIVALRIC WORLD
CONCLUSION
NOTES
CHAPTER EIGHT Representation EMMA LEVITT*
THE QUESTION OF REPRESENTATION IN THE MIDDLE AGES
PICTORIAL REPRESENTATION
LITERARY REPRESENTATION
POLITICAL REPRESENTATION
CONCLUSION
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
