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The ideal courtier is described as having a cool mind, a good voice (with beautiful, elegant and brave words) along with proper bearing and gestures. At the same time though, the courtier is expected to have a warrior spirit, to be athletic, and have good knowledge of the humanities, Classics and fine arts. Over the course of four evenings ...
In Making the American Body: The Remarkable Saga of the Men and Women Whose Feats, Feuds, and Passions Shaped Fitness History (2013) Crego, Robert. Sports and Games of the 18th and 19th Centuries (2003) Freeman, Mark. Sport, Health and the Body in the History of Physical Education (Routledge, 2015). Gardinier, E. Norman.
These new radical ideas about sports made their way into books, and films, and eventually became part of the social culture during the Renaissance. As mentioned by Mike Huggins, Gargantua written by François Rabelais was a well-known novel published in 1534 that mentioned sports and games as a unit, like many other renowned works of literature ...
A courtier (/ ˈ k ɔːr t i ər /) is a person who attends the royal court of a monarch or other royalty. [1] The earliest historical examples of courtiers were part of the retinues of rulers. Historically the court was the centre of government as well as the official residence of the monarch, and the social and political life were often ...
1174 — the first recorded race meeting in England was during the reign of Henry II at Smithfield, London during a horse fair. [24] 1512 — it is believed that the first occurrence of a trophy being presented to the winner of a race was by organisers of a fair in Chester; it was a small wooden bat or a ball decorated with flowers. [25] [26]
It was exactly 64 years ago that the first baseball game was broadcast on television in color. WCBS-TV in New York City broadcast the Boston Braves beating the Brooklyn Dodgers by an 8-1 score.
Uffenbach's account is one of the earliest known references to women's boxing. [1] 1719 – James Figg opens one of the first indoor venues for combat sports, adjoining the City of Oxford tavern in Oxford Road, London. [2] June 1722 – Elizabeth Wilkinson and Hannah Hyfield fight one of the earliest advertised women's boxing matches in London. [1]
c.1611 — the world's earliest known organised cricket match is played at Chevening, Kent between teams styled Weald and Upland and Chalkhill. [4] 1611 to 1660 — numerous court cases concerning cricket. 10 September 1624 — death of Jasper Vinall (born c. 1590), the first cricketer known to die as a result of an injury received when playing ...