A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome
406 69 6MB
English Pages 272 Year 2022
Report DMCA / Copyright
DOWNLOAD FILE
From gladiatorial combat to knightly tournaments and from hunting to games and gambling, sport has been central to human
830 148 5MB Read more
Studies the cultural history of sport in the lives of all people from before the Greeks to the late 1900's. Looks a
532 160 18MB Read more
A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650. Outwardly, Renaissance sports resembled t
988 92 7MB Read more
A cultural history of sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650. Outwardly, Renaissance sports resembled t
542 38 7MB Read more
This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of a
306 93 11MB Read more
767 82 9MB Read more
The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally
1,038 86 4MB Read more
Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population ex
698 50 2MB Read more
165 35 31MB Read more
605 90 5MB Read more