A Cultural History of Sport in the Age of Enlightenment

Rebekka von Mallinckrodt is Professor for Early Modern History at the University of Bremen and a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany. She has worked in the fields of religious studies, the history of the body, postcolonial and slavery studies. From 2015 to 2021, she is leading the ERC Consolidator Grant Project “The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and its Slaves.” With regard to sports and physical exercise she has published Bewegtes Leben – Körpertechniken in der Fru¨hen Neuzeit/Life on the Move – Body Techniques in the Early Modern Period (Harrassowitz, 2008), Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture (with Angela Schattner, Routledge, 2016), and numerous articles on the cultural and social history of running, swimming, and diving.

VOLUME 4: A CULTURAL HISTORY OF SPORT IN THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT
EDITED BY REBEKKA VON MALLINCKRODT, UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN, GERMANY

1. The Purpose of Sport, Mike Huggins
2. Sporting Time and Sporting Space, Rebekka von Mallinckrodt and Angela Schattner
3. Products, Training and Technology, Dave Day
4. Rules and Order, Wolfgang Behringer
5. Conflict and Accommodation, Elisabeth Belmas
6. Inclusion, Exclusion and Segregation, Rebekka von Mallinckrodt
7. Minds, Bodies, and Identities, Laurent Turcot
8. Representation, Alexis Tadié