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Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture - New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion (Paperback)
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Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture - New Perspectives on the History of Sports and Motion (Paperback)
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It is often assumed that a recognisably modern sporting culture did
not emerge until the eighteenth century. The plethora of physical
training and games that existed before 1700 tend to fall victim to
rigid historical boundaries drawn between "modern" and "pre-modern"
sports, which are concerned primarily with levels of regulation,
organization and competitiveness. Adopting a much broader and
culturally based approach, the essays in this collection offer an
alternative view of sport in the early modern period. Taking into
account a variety of competitive as well as non-competitive forms
of sport, physical training and games, the collection situates
these types of activities as institutions in their own right within
the socio-cultural context of early-modern Europe. Treating the
period not only as a precursor of modern developments, but as an
independent and formative era, the essays engage with overlooked
topics and sources such as court records, self-narratives, and
visual materials, and with contemporary discussions about space,
gender and postcolonial studies. By allowing for this increased
contextualization of sport, the collection is able to integrate it
into more general historical questions and approaches. The volume
underlines how developments in early modern sport influenced later
developments, whilst at the same time being thoroughly shaped by
contemporary notions of the body, status and honour. These notions
influenced not only the contemporary sporting fashion but the
adoption of sports in elite education, the use of sports
facilities, training methods and modes of competition, thus
offering a more integrated idea of the place of sport in early
modern society.
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