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Recreation in the Renaissance: Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, 1350-1700 (Early Modern History) by Alessandro Arcangeli is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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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
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- Author
- Alessandro Arcangeli
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780230507982
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Sports, World
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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