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
Author(s): Alessandro Arcangeli
Series: The Cultural Histories Series
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 252
City: London
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Halftitle page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
SERIES PREFACE
Introduction: Cultures of Sport in the Renaissance ALESSANDRO ARCANGELI
SETTING THE SCENE
HISTORIES OF RENAISSANCE SPORT
RENAISSANCE WRITING ON SPORT
A TALE OF TWO SPORTS
CULTURES, CIVILIZATION
DEVELOPMENTS AND TIMELINE
Notes
CHAPTER ONE The Purpose of Sport ALESSANDRO ARCANGELI
A WORLD OF WORDS
GOOD REASONS
SHAPING THE RENAISSANCE BODY
A CODA ON CHIVALRY
BACK TO SQUARE ONE
Notes
CHAPTER TWO Sporting Time and Sporting Space ANGELA SCHATTNER
HISTORIANS’ PERSPECTIVE
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE
PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVE
PUTTING SPORTS IN PLACE
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER THREE Products, Training, and Technology ÉLISABETH BELMAS*
A “FLOURISHING SPORTS EQUIPMENT INDUSTRY”
LEARNING AND TRAINING
TECHNICITY AND TECHNIQUES OF THE “SPORTING” BODY
CONCLUSION
Notes
CHAPTER FOUR Rules and Order CHRISTIAN JASER
INTRODUCTION
GUIDING SPORTSMANSHIP: RULE BOOKS AND OCCASION-RELATED RULES
CONCLUSION: RULES AND ORDER IN CONTEXT
Notes
CHAPTER FIVE Conflict and Accommodation DIANE ROUSSEL
THE MORAL AND RELIGIOUS OFFENSIVE. LAWFUL VS UNLAWFUL RECREATIONS: WHERE IS SPORT IN ALL THIS?
LEGAL DISCOURSE: BETWEEN LAWFUL AND UNLAWFUL SPORTS, IS THERE A GRAY ZONE FOR SPORT?
ENCOURAGING AND PROMOTING “FUNCTIONAL SPORT” FOR MILITARY PURPOSES
SPORT UNDER SUSPICION: WHEN REPRESSIVE MEASURES SPREAD TO LAWFUL GAMES
REJECTING VIOLENCE, DISCIPLINING THE BODY
Note
CHAPTER SIX Inclusion, Exclusion, and Segregation MATTEO CASINI*
USE OF SPORT BY GOVERNMENTS AND ELITES
SPORT AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE
SPORT AND GENDER
SPORT AND AGE
CONCLUSIONS
Note
CHAPTER SEVEN Minds, Bodies, and Identities LAURENT TURCOT*
RELIGIOUS CONTEXT
EQUESTRIAN GAMES
DETERMINING SOCIAL NORMS
REBIRTH OF THE BODY
VIOLENCE IN THE RENAISSANCE
CONCLUSION
Note
CHAPTER EIGHT Representation ANTONELLA FENECH KROKE
THE RISE OF THE “SPORTIVE” BODY
SPORTIVE BEHAVIORAL STANDARDS FOR FINE GENTLEMEN
SPORTIVE PRACTICES BETWEEN POLITICS AND SOCIABILITY
NEW WORLD’S ATHLETIC BODIES
GESTURES AND RULES: TECHNIQUES OF THE BODY AND TECHNIQUES OF THE GAME
DID EARLY MODERN MEN ALREADY PRACTICE SPORTS?
Notes
BIBLIOGRAPHY
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
