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Recreation in the Renaissance

Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c.1425-1675
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Description

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.

Author Biography:

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 Salome, was awarded a prize (Finale Ligure Storia, 2001).
Release date NZ
December 18th, 2003
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Audiences
  • Professional & Vocational
  • Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations
IX, 188 p.
Pages
188
Dimensions
140x216x16
ISBN-13
9780333984536
Product ID
11868009

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