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

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

Arcangeli, A.

Hardcover

Series: Early Modern History: Society and Culture

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World HistoryGerman History

ISBN10: 0333984536
ISBN13: 9780333984536
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Dec 18 2003
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.64 Width: 5.54 Depth: 8.76
Language: English
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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