This lengthy treatise cover the overall history of archery and the bow, all of its parts, methods, equipment, shooting styles and famous shows and marksmen from a British perspective.
Author: Thomas Roberts
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ISBN: LCCN:05039493
Category: HISTORY
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This lengthy treatise cover the overall history of archery and the bow, all of its parts, methods, equipment, shooting styles and famous shows and marksmen from a British perspective.To be. Layed in the thyng. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.
Author: Thomas Roberts
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ISBN: 0282401504
Category: Social Science
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Excerpt from The English Bowman, or Tracts on Archery: To Which Is Added the Second Part of the Bowman's GloryThe Perfians, we are told (see the Prg'ace to Mgbley, p. 5) pofi'efs treatil'es 'upon the art, as pt'aetifed by them, written in very early times. T he, Etnperor' Leo, in his Tactics, has given a few hints upon this ffttbje&: and Vegetius (in his work De Rel Miami) (lightly notices the practice of this art. Why we have not any writer upon archery, prior to fifhham, is rby'him thus accounted for. And, that no man hitherto hath written anyc booke of {hot ing, ' the faulte is not. To be. Layed in the thyng.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended.
Author: Thomas Roberts
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ISBN: 0461959402
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Page: 364
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This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!As archery mania spread, three booklength studies of the history of archery ... Thomas Roberts published The English Bowman; or Tracts on Archery in 1801, ...
Author: Sharon Harrow
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781317171423
Category: Literary Criticism
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Sport as it is largely understood today was invented during the long eighteenth century when the modern rules of sport were codified; sport emerged as a business, a spectacle, and a performance; and gaming organized itself around sporting culture. Examining the underexplored intersection of sport, literature, and culture, this collection situates sport within multiple contexts, including religion, labor, leisure time, politics, nationalism, gender, play, and science. A poetics, literature, and culture of sport swelled during the era, influencing artists such as John Collett and writers including Lord Byron, Jonathan Swift, and Henry Fielding. This volume brings together literary scholars and historians of sport to demonstrate the ubiquity of sport to eighteenth-century life, the variety of literary and cultural representations of sporting experiences, and the evolution of sport from rural pastimes to organized, regular events of national and international importance. Each essay offers in-depth readings of both material practices and representations of sport as they relate to, among other subjects, recreational sports, the Cotswold games, clothing, women archers, tennis, celebrity athletes, and the theatricality of boxing. Taken together, the essays in this collection offer valuable multiple perspectives on reading sport during the century when sport became modern.