Popular recreation
- Created by: Clarisse
- Created on: 20-11-13 18:28
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- Popular recreation
- definition
- Pre industrial sports and pastimes mainly associated with the peasant/lower class. This term could also refer to the most popular pastimes at that time
- Characteristics
- Natural/simple
- Lack of: technology, purpose built facilities and money for the masses
- Local
- Limited transport and communications
- Simple, unwritten rules
- Illiteracy, no NGBs, only played locally
- Cruel/Viollent
- Reflecting the harshness of 18th century rural life
- Occasional
- free time for recreation e.g holy days such as shrove tuesday
- Courtly/popular
- 2 class society based on feudal system
- Rural
- Britain was agricultural and rural
- Occupational
- Work often became a basis of sport
- Wagering
- a chance to go from 'rags to riches' or show off for the rich
- Natural/simple
- Varying opportunities for participation
- Class
- The Upper class prodominetly dominated the peasants abd they had all of the opporunity and provision and esteem that was: Money, times and social status
- Opportunity
- Provision
- Esteem
- Gender
- Upper class women were free to pursue certain elitist pastimes, such as hawking. Lower class women were free to be physical but in less sophisticated activities eg smock races
- Class
- Case studies
- Bathing and swimming
- in the middle ages towns were built at defensive sites and river crossings
- bathing was for pleasure. rivers were playgrounds, transport and for washing.
- chivalric code
- the courteous, gallant and gentlemanly behavior associated with the upper class
- in the middle ages towns were built at defensive sites and river crossings
- Athletics
- folk sports associated wih annual parish feasts and fairs
- wake
- social occasion, men to test strength, and prove their speed
- pedestrianism
- attracted wagers, a way of enhancing social status, DEERFOOT and CAPTAIN ROBERT BARCLAY ALLIANCE
- Mob football
- Had all of the characteristics of popular recreation
- Simple unwritten rules due to widespread illiteracy and rules passed on by word of mouth and of llocal origin
- lack of: set rules, set positions, set pitch/boundaries, referee/ or umpire,skillfulness, regularity
- Courtly
- frowned upon as it caused damage to property, injury to young men, disrespect to the Sabbath, social unrest,
- popular
- city streets, masive brawls which reflects the harsh lifestyle
- Had all of the characteristics of popular recreation
- Cricket
- Both classes:
- reflecting the feudal and class structure of the village
- bat and ball inn
- cradle of cricket, Richard nyren captained the side that dominated the side that dominated cricket for half a century
- Marylebone cricket club
- the gentleman who developed the laws of cricket in 1774. this forced the decline of hambledon as players were employed bu mcc
- Interest and patronage by the gentry led to the early standardisation of rules
- Both classes:
- Real Tennis
- Courlty
- WHen it beacme popular it was for kings, nobles and merchnats
- Popular
- the peasants didnt really take part as it was a getlemans sport and they didnt have the time or money to play it
- PLayed on purpose built facilities, highly sophisticated courts.
- Complex ruls and required high level of skill
- Courlty
- Bathing and swimming
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