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Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance
Gregory M. Colon SemenzaLog in to track your reading progress.
Overview
Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance is the first book-length study of the crucial relationship between sport and the political and imaginative literature of Renaissance England. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, educators, medical practitioners, and military scientists were among the many contemporaries who praised sport as necessary and functional - physiologically beneficial to the individual practitioner, vital to the preparedness of the military, and necessary to the maintenance of the traditional class hierarchy.Synopsis
Semenza (English, U. of Connecticut) investigates contending representations of sport in a wide range of writings between the middle Tudor and Restoration periods in England. He finds that sport was believed to be vital to the orderly functioning of the individual body and the body politic, but that this conception of sport was also transformed, debated, and complicated over the 150 years. Distributed by Associated University Presses. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Details
Published
January 1, 2004
Publisher
University of Delaware Press
Pages
240
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780874138443