Glig Gamena Angel Deod, Or, the Sports and Pastimes of the People of England
Author : Joseph Strutt
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1801
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Strutt
Publisher :
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 20,81 MB
Release : 1801
Category : England
ISBN :
Author : Joseph Strutt
Publisher :
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 18,91 MB
Release : 1810
Category : Amusements
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Author : Joseph 1749-1802 Strutt
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781363105724
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Author : Benjamin Litherland
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 18,1 MB
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1315404699
This innovative and timely volume of essays critically interrogates the shared histories between sport and a variety of leisure, entertainment and cultural pursuits. Utilizing a range of historical methods and sources, they describe how sport has interacted with a broad range of leisure forms, including tourism, shopping, theatre, circus, carnival and film.
Author : Derek Birley
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,47 MB
Release : 1993-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780719037597
This lively and stimulating book looks at some of the myths and realities surrounding Britain's legendary enthusiasm for sport; and aims to chronicle how sporting traditions were shaped and how they, in turn, contributed to the shaping of British social conventions and attitudes.
Author : Steve Roud
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0141919272
This enthralling book will take you, month-by-month, day-by-day, through all the festivities of English life. From national celebrations such as New Year’s Eve to regional customs such as the Padstow Hobby Horse procession, cheese rolling in Gloucestershire and Easter Monday bottle kicking in Leeds, it explains how they originated, what they mean and when they occur. A fascinating guide to the richness of our heritage and the sometimes eccentric nature of life in England, The English Year offers a unique chronological view of our social customs and attitudes
Author : Jacqueline Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 47,74 MB
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191578525
This dictionary is part of the Oxford Reference Collection: using sustainable print-on-demand technology to make the acclaimed backlist of the Oxford Reference programme perennially available in hardback format. An engrossing guide to English folklore and traditions, with over 1,250 entries. Folklore is connected to virtually every aspect of life, part of the country, age group, and occupation. From the bizarre to the seemingly mundane, it is as much a feature of the modern technological age as of the ancient world. BL Oral and Performance genres-Cheese rolling, Morris dancing, Well-dressingEL BL Superstitions-Charms, Rainbows, WishbonesEL BL Characters-Cinderella, Father Christmas, Robin Hood, Dick WhittingtonEL BL Supernatural Beliefs-Devil's hoofprints, Fairy rings, Frog showersEL BL Calendar Customs-April Fool's Day, Helston Furry Day, Valentine's DayEL
Author : Richard Mercer Dorson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415204767
First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 844 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 2019-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 3110623706
Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importance of these aspects in cultural, religious, philosophical, and literary terms. This volume expands on the traditional approach still very much focused on the materiality of game (toys, cards, dice, falcons, dolls, etc.) and acknowledges that game constituted also a form of coming to terms with human existence in an unstable and volatile world determined by universal randomness and fortune. Whether considering blessings or horse fighting, falconry or card games, playing with dice or dolls, we can gain a much deeper understanding of medieval and early modern society when we consider how people pursued pleasure and how they structured their leisure time. The contributions examine a wide gamut of approaches to pleasure, considering health issues, eroticism, tournaments, playing music, reading and listening, drinking alcohol, gambling and throwing dice. This large issue was also relevant, of course, in non-Christian societies, and constitutes a critical concern both for the past and the present because we are all homines ludentes.
Author : Christopher Love
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 2013-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1317970284
Covering a time of great social and technological change, this history traces the development of the four classic aquatic disciplines of competitive swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo, with its main focus on racing. Working from the beginnings of municipal recreational swimming, the book fully explores the links between swimming and other aspects of English life society including class, education, gender, municipal governance, sexuality and the Victorian invention of the sports amateur-professional divide. Uniquely focused on swimming -often neglected in analytic sports histories- this is the first study of its kind and will be an important landmark in the establishment of swimming history as a topic of scholarly investigation. This book was previously published as a special issue of the International Journal of the History of Sport.