Arena and Pall Mall. Sport in the early modern period.

Autor/in	Behringer, Wolfgang
Titel	Arena and Pall Mall. Sport in the early modern period. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Arena und Pall Mall. Sport in der frühen Neuzeit.
Quelle	In: German history, 27 (2009) 3, S. 331-357 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0266-3554; 1477-089X
DOI	10.1093/gerhis/ghp030
Schlagwörter	Institutionalisierung; Schulsport; Sportgeschichte; Professionalisierung; Architektur; Neuzeit; Regelwerk; Standardisierung; Europa
Abstract	This article argues that the early modern period in Europe from c. 1450 to 1850 should be not seen merely as an independent era in the history of sport but rather as the formative period of modern sports. This is due to the high levels of institutionalization and standardization sports underwent in Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and England among other countries. In arguing this point, the article examines a number of topical examples: the codification of sports in rule books; the role of sports in educational programmes and humanist schools; sports architecture such as ball houses and pall malls; sporting goods such as pa/ton/ and racchette and their pan-European trade; the sports enthusiasm of early modern princes; the professionalization of sports through coaches, referees, professional athletes, competitions and prizes, and the beginnings of sports reporting; and pre-Coubertinian attempts at reviving the classical Olympic Games such as the Cotswold Games of Robert Dover from the early seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth centuries. Verf.-Referat.
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2013/1