This study departs from the standard picture of English sporting activities as one of Renaissance Glory and exuberance being snuffed out by Puritan strictures, and then reviving lustily with the Restoration.
Chapter 1 I The Historical Study of Sport; Chapter 2 II The Elizabethan Inheritance; Chapter 3 III Exercise, Education and Social Attitudes, 1600–1650; Chapter 4 IV Sport and the Puritans; Chapter 5 V The Motion of Limbs; Chapter 6 VI Sporting Theory and Practice Under the Later Stuarts; Chapter 7 VII The Past and the Present;
