Recreation in the Renaissance: Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture C.1425-1675 - Couverture souple

Arcangeli, A.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1349430749 ISBN 13 : 9781349430741

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003

Synopsis

In Renaissance Europe, when 'leisure classes' used social gathering to define civility and the commercialization of leisure was beginning, the human need for recreation became a cultural topos. The book explores the vocabulary of play and games; the spectrum of leisure activities, often gender-specific or appropriate to particular social groups; the medical discourse on the preservation of health, where amusements were assessed as physical exercise; the moral approach to play; legal treatises on gambling; and the visual representation of leisure.

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À propos de l'auteur

ALESSANDRO ARCANGELI (PhD Pisa) Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Verona, has studied at the Warburg Institute (1989-90) and was a Fellow of Villa I Tatti (1998-99). His book on the cultural history of dance, Davide o Salomè, was awarded a prize (Finale Ligure Storia, 2001).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Palgrave Macmillan
• Date d'édition: 2003
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1349430749
• ISBN 13: 9781349430741
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 197
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