Title:
A History of sport and physical education to 1900 : (selected topics) / edited, with introductory essays, by Earle F. Zeigler.
Main Entry:
Zeigler, Earle F.
Publisher:
Stipes Pub. Co.,
Publication Date:
c1973.
Publication Place:
Champaign, Ill. :
ISBN:
0875630626
Subject:
Sports -- History.
Physical education and training -- History.
Games -- History.
Sports -- history.
Physical Education and Training -- history.
Sports -- Histoire.
âEducation physique -- Histoire.
Sport.
Lichamelijke opvoeding.
Contents:
Introduction to Pioneers of modern physical training / Fred E. Leonard -- Early societies. Historical foundations : social and educational / Earle F. Zeigler -- Sport and games in early civilization / Denise Palmer and Maxwell L. Howell -- Early Chinese physical education and sport / Kohsuke Sasajima -- Early Indian physical education / K. Rajagopalan -- Sports and games in ancient Egypt / Kamal Saleh Abdou -- Archaeological evidence of sports and games in ancient Crete / Denise Palmer and Maxwell L. Howell -- Sports and games among the Etruscans / Maxwell L. Howell and Lorne W. Sawula -- Ball games of antiquity / Uriel Simri -- Rubber ball games of early Central America / A.E. Cox, R.G. Glassford, Maxwell L. Howell -- Greece and Rome. Historical foundations : social and educational / Earle F. Zeigler -- Athletic events of The Odyssey / G. Alan Stull -- The Spartan Agoge / Clarence A. Forbes -- Spread of Greek athletics / Harold A. Harris.
(cont.) Influence of Plato and Platonism on the development of physical education in western culture / John R. Fairs -- Greek critics of athletes and athletics (530 B.C.-A.D. 225) / Rachel S. Robinson -- Attitudes towards physical exercise reflected in the literature of ancient Rome / Peter L. Lindsay -- An analysis of the writings of selected church fathers to A.D. 394 to reveal attitudes regarding physical activity / Ralph B. Ballou -- The Middle Ages (including the Renaissance and the Reformation). Historical foundations : social and educational / Earle F. Zeigler -- The idea of history of physical education during the Middle Ages and Renaissance / D.B. Van Dalen -- Chivalric education in the Middle Ages / Jan Broekhoff -- Our legacy from the Middle Ages / Nicolaas J. Moolenijzer -- Physical education in Renaissance Italy and Tudor England / Peter C. McIntosh -- The Enlightenment and 19th century Europe. Historical foundations : social and educational / Earle F. Zeigler -- Gutsmuths, Nachtegall, Ling, and Jahn / Fred E. Leonard.
(cont.) The concept of "natural" in physical education (Johann Guts Muths, Margarete Streicher) / Nicholaas J. Moolenijzer -- The rise of European nationalism and its effect on the pattern of physical education and sport / Glyn C. Roberts -- Physical education in England / Peter C. McIntosh -- The genesis of the modern Olympic games / John A. Lucas -- A biased view of history, historiography and physical education and sport / Earle F. Zeigler.
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