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Informationen zum Autor Alessandro Arcangeli teaches early modern, Renaissance and cultural history at the University of Verona. He is the author of a reference book on historiography and method (Cultural History: A Concise Introduction, London 2012) and of specialist studies of attitudes towards dance (with particular emphasis on cultural exchange) and play ( Recreation in the Renaissance , Basingstoke 2003). Passions and dreams offered some of his recent research topics. He is co-editor of collective volumes (including A Cultural History of Memory in the Early Modern Age , with M. Tamm) and book series (among others, “Cultures of Play”, Amsterdam), as well as member of editorial boards (such as that of the journal Ludica ). 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 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 setGeneral Editors: Wray Vamplew, Mark Dyreson, and John McClelland Vorwort Examines all aspects of sport in the Renaissance Zusammenfassung 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...
