(Hardback)

A scholarly narrative of sports from the fall of Rome to the end of the Middle Ages, this text looks at the evidence of sports and recreations in late antiquity and focuses on the close relationship between sports and war in feudal society.

(Hardback)

This volume expands the debate over the origins and purposes of sports records. After introductions by Guttmann and the editors, the book proceeds on a chronological study of evidence of sports records in ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, medieval England, the Renaissance, Tudor and Elizabethan England, pre-modern Hawaii, and pre-modern Japan.