Recreation in the Renaissance
Subtitle: Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, 1350-1700 (Early Modern History)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 18, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780333984536
Subjects: European history: c 500 to c 1500; Social history; History; History - General History; History: World; General; Renaissance; History / Renaissance; Europe; Leisure; Recreation
First sentence: The overall hypothesis that holds this book together is the idea that during the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a distinctive leisure culture was elaborated in Europe, which presents obvious connections with precedent and subsequent developments, but is nonetheless distinguishable from both.