Title: Sport, politics, and literature in the English Renaissance
Description: "Sport, Politics, and Literature in the English Renaissance is the first book-length study of the crucial relationship between sport and the political and imaginative literature of Renaissance England. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, educators, medical practitioners, and military scientists were among the many contemporaries who praised sport as necessary and functional - physiologically beneficial to the individual practitioner, vital to the preparedness of the military, and necessary to the maintenance of the traditional class hierarchy."--Jacket.
Subjects: English literature, History, History and criticism, Political aspects of Sports, Politics and government, Politics and literature, Renaissance, Sports, Sports in literature, English literature, history and criticism, early modern, 1500-1700, Great britain, history, tudors, 1485-1603, Great britain, history, stuarts, 1603-1714, Sports and state, Renaissance, england, Great britain, politics and government, 1485-1603, Great britain, politics and government, 1603-1714, Political aspects
Places: England, Great Britain
Time periods: 1485-1603, 1603-1714, 16th century, 17th century, Early modern, 1500-1700