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Tennis

A Cultural History

by Heiner Gillmeister
Paperback
Publication Date: 15/03/2017

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This is the second edition of the highly acclaimed and bestselling comprehensive history of tennis which was the first truly scholarly history of any individual sport. Supported by a startling wealth of linguistic and documentary research, Gillmeister charts the global evolution of tennis from its origins in 12th century France, where it emerged as a more peaceful variety of ribald football played in monasteries. By the 16th century, it had become the favourite pastime of the European aristocracy and had, in the wake of the Spanish conquistadors, even reached the Americas. The prestige of the game also led to its popularity among Renaissance poets and playwrights. After a gradual decline in the 18th and 19th centuries the medieval game revived in the 1870s in the form of lawn tennis. The new game dispensed with expensive walled courts, discarded the complicated rules of the old game and was played in a natural setting. From England, with its famous Wimbledon tournament, it spread to the European continent and to the United States, where the Davis Cup was born.


Gillmeister debunks several firmly established myths about the history of the game, and rare colour photographs and medieval and renaissance drawings generously adorn the text. A delight for the sports fan and the scholar alike, Tennis: A Cultural History is the authoritative text on the sport.

ISBN:
9781781795217
9781781795217
Category:
Sports & outdoor recreation
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
15-03-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Equinox Publishing Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Edition:
2nd Edition
Dimensions (mm):
243.08x169.93mm
Weight:
1.16kg

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