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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 gambling; and the visual representation of leisure.

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Book category Books in English Humanities History Regional & national history

• Full title: Recreation in the Renaissance
• Subtitle: Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, c.1425-1675
• Author: Alessandro Arcangeli
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 188
• EAN: 9781349430741
• ID: 12043611
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Weight: 261 g
• Dimensions: 216 × 140 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 2003

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