Sports And Games Of The Renaissance

Informationen zum Autor ANDREW LEIBS is an award-winning writer of over 2000 newspaper and magazine pieces that have appeared in such publications as Dialogue and The San Francisco Examiner . Klappentext The Renaissance was a period of extraordinary spirit and development that marked a critical stage in the history of sports and games. In Europe the development of a moneyed economy and more refined methods of timekeeping ushered in a new era of leisure and leisure-activity, in which the old tradition of the Shrove Tuesday Football match deepened in the cultural consciousness. In Asia, Sumo's gradual codification began to develop alongside ancestors of the modern game of hackey-sack. In North and South America, European explorers saw how traditional team sports and games such as lacrosse and pelota could serve as an integrating and uniting phenomenon. Series editor Andrew Leibs provides narrative chapters on Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, North America, and Oceania, each of which shows how modern-day form of recreation evolved during the Renaissance. In addition, readers will learn how to play games that had been previously lost to history. This volume is the latest installment in the Sports and Games Through History series. Each geographically arranged chapter describes sports, games, and rituals of play, along with descriptions on equipment and instructions for making or adapting game pieces. Zusammenfassung The Renaissance was a period of extraordinary spirit and development that marked a critical stage in the history of sports and games. In addition! readers will learn how to play games that had been previously lost to history. This volume is the latest installment in the Sports and Games Through History series. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Series Foreword Introduction List of Illustrations Asia Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Oceania Bibliography Index ...

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Leibs, Leibs Andrew
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.10.2004
• EAN: 9780313327728
• ISBN: 978-0-313-32772-8
• No. of pages: 199
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Sports and Games Through History; Sports and Games Through Histo; Sports and Games Through History
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > General, dictionaries, handbooks, yearbooks, history; Humanities, art, music > History > Cultural history; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; History: specific events & topics, SPORTS & RECREATION / General, HISTORY / General, c 1500 onwards to present day, Sports & outdoor recreation, Sport: general, c 1000 CE to c 1500, History: specific events and topics, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, World History: Culture