Sport and Society - Elizabeth to Anne

Informationen zum Autor D. BRAILSFORD Zusammenfassung This study departs from the standard picture of English sporting activities as one of Renaissance Glory and exuberance being snuffed out by Puritan strictures, and then reviving lustily with the Restoration. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 I The Historical Study of Sport; Chapter 2 II The Elizabethan Inheritance; Chapter 3 III Exercise, Education and Social Attitudes, 1600–1650; Chapter 4 IV Sport and the Puritans; Chapter 5 V The Motion of Limbs; Chapter 6 VI Sporting Theory and Practice Under the Later Stuarts; Chapter 7 VII The Past and the Present;

Product details

• Authors: Dennis Brailsford
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.10.2006
• EAN: 9780415413091
• ISBN: 978-0-415-41309-1
• No. of pages: 290
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Sociology, HISTORY / General, REFERENCE / General, Social & cultural history, Sociology: sport and leisure, Social and cultural history