Body and Mind: Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance

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ISBN: 9780714653570 | 0714653578
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 12/26/2006

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"Body and Mind : Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance traces the evolution of sport in Western Europe from the arenas and chariot races of the early modern period, to the triumph of personal decorum and scientific rationalism in the seventeenth century." "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."--BOOK JACKET.

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List of illustrations	p. xii
Series editors' foreword	p. xiii
Preface	p. xv
Timelines, historiography, definitions	p. 1
Sport in the forgotten centuries (1): the primary sources to 600 AD	p. 19
Sport in the forgotten centuries (2): the primary sources 600-1700	p. 36
The sports, the athletes, the material setting	p. 60
Tournaments, jousting and the game of death	p. 80
Sport in the service of res publica	p. 99
Athletics within the social fabric	p. 114
Body and mind: after the Renaissance	p. 132
Notes	p. 140
Bibliography	p. 159
Index	p. 179
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Body and Mind: Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance

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