Tennis (Gillmeister Heiner)(Paperback)
Tennis (Gillmeister Heiner)(Paperback) This is the second edition of the highly acclaimed and bestselling comprehensive history of tennis which was the first truly scholarly history of any individual…
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Tennis (Gillmeister Heiner)(Paperback)
This is the second edition of the highly acclaimed and bestselling comprehensive history of tennis which was the first truly scholarly history of any individual sport. By the 16th century, it had become the favourite pastime of the European aristocracy and had, in the wake of the Spanish conquistadors, even reached the Americas. Supported by a startling wealth of linguistic and documentary research, Gillmeister charts the global evolution of tennis from its origins in 12th century France, where it emerged as a more peaceful variety of ribald football played in monasteries.
After a gradual decline in the 18th and 19th centuries the medieval game revived in the 1870s in the form of lawn tennis. The prestige of the game also led to its popularity among Renaissance poets and playwrights. The new game dispensed with expensive walled courts, discarded the complicated rules of the old game