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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... TENNIS Ball What did the medieval tennis ball look like ? The author who gave us deep insights into the human soul , also lets us catch a glimpse of the inner life of tennis balls . In his comedy Much Ado about Nothing ( 1598 ) ...
... TENNIS Ball What did the medieval tennis ball look like ? The author who gave us deep insights into the human soul , also lets us catch a glimpse of the inner life of tennis balls . In his comedy Much Ado about Nothing ( 1598 ) ...
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... Tennis - balls , my liege ' , his uncle Exeter replies . Of course , this insult is impossible to swallow . Henry , foaming with rage , swears to change the French tennis balls into English cannonballs and then to play one hell of a ...
... Tennis - balls , my liege ' , his uncle Exeter replies . Of course , this insult is impossible to swallow . Henry , foaming with rage , swears to change the French tennis balls into English cannonballs and then to play one hell of a ...
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... tennis court in the province is referred to around the middle of the ... tennis episode , the last is based on conjecture : The ball of brasse was ... balls ' . 111. See Grosart , The Non - Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker , vol ...
... tennis court in the province is referred to around the middle of the ... tennis episode , the last is based on conjecture : The ball of brasse was ... balls ' . 111. See Grosart , The Non - Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker , vol ...
Contents
the monks racket | 1 |
The tennis games of the Middle Ages | 35 |
The language of tennis | 84 |
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