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Informationen zum Autor Noel Fallows is the distinguished research professor of Spanish and associate provost at the University of Georgia. His most recent books include Jousting in Medieval and Renaissance Iberia (Boydell, 2010) and the first translation into English from the original Catalan of Ramon Llull’s Book of the Order of Chivalry (Boydell, 2013). John McClelland is a Professor Emeritus of French literature and former associated professor of the history of sport, University of Toronto, Canada. He has published numerous works, including Body and Mind: Sport in Europe from the Roman Empire to the Renaissance (2006). Mark Dyreson is a Professor of Kinesiology, Penn State, USA. He has authored and edited 10 books, including, most recently, Sports History: Issues, Debates and Challenges (2016) Sport in the Americas (2018). Wray Vamplew is Emeritus Professor of Sports History at the University of Stirling, where he was appointed as Scotland’s first Chair in Sports History, and Global Professorial Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. He has authored and edited more than twenty books, including most recently, Numbers and Narratives: Sport, History and Economics (2018). Klappentext 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 Male and female aristocrats hunted and knights engaged in jousting and tournaments, transforming increasingly outdated modes of warfare into brilliant spectacle.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 setGeneral Editors: Wray Vamplew, Mark Dyreson, and John McClelland Vorwort Examines all aspects of sport in the Medieval Age Zusammenfassung 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 setGeneral Editors: Wra...
