ABSTRACT

This study departs from the standard picture of English sporting activities as one of Renaissance Glory and exuberance being snuffed out by Puritan strictures, and then reviving lustily with the Restoration.

chapter I|5 pages

The Historical Study of Sport

chapter II|61 pages

The Elizabethan Inheritance

chapter IV|36 pages

Sport and the Puritans

chapter V|40 pages

The Motion of Limbs

chapter VII|21 pages

The Past and the Present