Tennis: A Cultural HistoryThe cover painting shows an 18th-century Italian game of tennis, and the opening chapter is intriguingly subtitled "Tennis and the Devil." Gillmeister (linguistics, U. of Bonn) provides a sociohistorical survey of this popular sport. Illustrations and photos as well as commentary trace the game from its origins as "the monk's racket" --an attenuated medieval form of football--, through Renaissance literary references to it, to its evolution as lawn tennis in America and Europe. Distributed in the US by Books International. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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Page 108
... France , and that the form Tenetz in the five - beat iambus of John Gower's poem was stressed on the last syllable , this was not a bad idea at all . What did leave a few twinges of doubt was the fact that the game should have been ...
... France , and that the form Tenetz in the five - beat iambus of John Gower's poem was stressed on the last syllable , this was not a bad idea at all . What did leave a few twinges of doubt was the fact that the game should have been ...
Page 111
... France , we hear of an English embassy sent to the King of France ( a notable difference to the story as told by Shakespeare ) in order to make known to him the claims of their King to the duchies of Normandy , Gascony , and Guyenne ...
... France , we hear of an English embassy sent to the King of France ( a notable difference to the story as told by Shakespeare ) in order to make known to him the claims of their King to the duchies of Normandy , Gascony , and Guyenne ...
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... France , mœurs au XV et XVI Siècles ' , in Archives historiques et littéraires du nord de la France et du Midi de la Belgique , third series 2 ( 1851 ) , pp . 526-34 , and 3 ( 1852 ) , pp . 170-5 . La Marinière , La Mayson académique ...
... France , mœurs au XV et XVI Siècles ' , in Archives historiques et littéraires du nord de la France et du Midi de la Belgique , third series 2 ( 1851 ) , pp . 526-34 , and 3 ( 1852 ) , pp . 170-5 . La Marinière , La Mayson académique ...
Contents
the monks racket | 1 |
The tennis games of the Middle Ages | 35 |
The language of tennis | 84 |
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