A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome
343 60 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
598 135 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
326 142 18MB Read more
A Cultural History of Sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650. Outwardly, Renaissance sports resembled t
755 75 7MB Read more
A cultural history of sport in the Renaissance covers the period 1450 to 1650. Outwardly, Renaissance sports resembled t
436 37 7MB Read more
This volume surveys democracy broadly as a cultural phenomenon operating in different ways across a very wide range of a
474 76 5MB Read more
A Cultural History of Color in Antiquity covers the period 3000 BCE to 500 CE. Although the smooth, white marbles of Cla
411 82 8MB Read more
Though there was not even a word for, or a concept of, disability in Antiquity, a considerable part of the population ex
569 35 2MB Read more
700 76 9MB Read more
The ancient world used the senses to express an enormous range of cultural meanings. Indeed the senses were functionally
961 74 4MB Read more
432 96 14MB Read more