Publication details
The Middle Ages, Body, and Sport
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | A sport és tudomány napja |
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| Citation | |
| Field | History |
| Keywords | The Middle Ages; Body; Proscriptions; Nudity; Sport; Leisure time |
| Description | The paper shows that denigradition of the medieval time is part of our European Ideology. The ideology have arisen in the 18th and the 19th centuries and influenced our conceptions of body and sport. By close analysis, the author supports the different view on body, nudity, sex and sport in the Middle Ages. The paper is a outcome of a research into modern ideology of sport. |