Publications

Authors:

Arcangeli, Alessandro

Title:

Sports and games

Year:

2024

Type of item:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Tipologia ANVUR:

Contributo in volume (Capitolo o Saggio)

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Book Title:

A cultural history of leisure in the Renaissance

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

ISBN:

978-1-3500-5726-5

Page numbers:

77-93

Keyword:

sport, games, Renaissance

Short description of contents:

Play occupies a central role in notions and practices of leisure. Play is, by definition, purposeless: while being a fuzzy field that comprises a wide variety of acts and patterns of behavior, if it leans too much in the direction of a particular function, it turns into something else. Therefore, it belongs to, or rather sets out for itself, a time and space free from other occupations. ‘Professional player’ is, technically, an oxymoron, a contradiction in terms, despite the fact that the social and cultural history of sport and games has allowed for that figure to actually emerge. While the content of this chapter presents an inevitable and, hopefully, desirable overlapping and interaction with that of others, it aims to define sport and games more specifically, in order to map the field of inquiry with respect to the Renaissance.

Product ID:

138142

Handle IRIS:

11562/1120566

Last Modified:

March 3, 2024

Bibliographic citation:

Arcangeli, Alessandro, Sports and games A cultural history of leisure in the Renaissance , Bloomsbury , 2024 , pp. 77-93

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