ABSTRACT
Henning Eichberg’s publications are many and varied: ‘brilliant and prolific’, according to the influential American sports historian, Allen Guttmann (1988, p. 209). His longest (and some would say his most significant) works have been published in German and Danish (Eichberg 1973, 1978, 1988; Eichberg and Jespersen 1985), and it is mainly in the form of articles that his work has appeared in English. Some of these papers are readily accessible; others are scattered in journals and somewhat obscure collections and conference proceedings across a very wide disciplinary spectrum. It is the breadth and hence the relative inaccessibility of this corpus of knowledge, relevant to students in a variety of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, that we feel provides the raison d’être for the present collection.
