Recreation in the Renaissance: Attitudes Towards Leisure and Pastimes in European Culture, C.1425-1675

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.

Author: A. Arcangeli
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 12/18/2003
Pages: 188
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.76h x 5.54w x 0.64d
ISBN: 9780333984536

About the Author
ALESSANDRO ARCANGELI (PhD Pisa) Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Verona, has studied at the Warburg Institute (1989-90) and was a Fellow of Villa I Tatti (1998-99). His book on the cultural history of dance, Davide o Salomè, was awarded a prize (Finale Ligure Storia, 2001).

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