While it is normally understood that the period we refer to as the Renaissance saw a significant development of physical play and exercise and a growing orientation towards a positive appreciation of its propriety and benefits, it is also true that at the same time a variety of texts displayed a concern and warning against excess and its negative consequences. Although such concerns may be predictable and sound like common sense, it is probably worth keeping them in mind to get a more accurate picture of contemporary theory and practice. The resulting picture is one that does not allow for oversimplification, although the value of moderation not too much, not too little continues to play the role of dominant discourse, as it had done for a very long period.
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Proceedings of the 14th International CESH Congress and of the 1st National SISS Congress
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67435
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11562/375020
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June 19, 2012
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ARCANGELI ALESSANDRO,
Medicine, gymnastics and the Renaissance sense of the body's limits in Corpo e senso del limite/Sport and a sense of the Body’s limits. Atti del 14° Congresso del CESH – European Committee for Sports History e del 1° Congresso Nazionale della SISS – Società Italiana di Storia dello Sport
, Hannover
, NISH
, Proceedings of "Corpo e senso del limite/Sport and a sense of the Body’s limits"
, Pisa
, 17-20 settembre 2009
, 2014
, pp. 357-362