Recreation in the Renaissance

186 Index
Sauzet, Robert, 141
Saxl, Fritz, 136
Scaino, Antonio, 110, 151
scandal, 50
Schama, Simon, 104, 150
Schnitzler, Norbert, 134
scholasticism, 53, 55, 62, 76, 93
scholé vs ascholia, 50
school, as a meaning of ludus, 28,
101, 128
schools, English public, 29
Schottus, Franciscus, Itinerary to Italy,
40
Schreiner, Klaus, 134
Scientific Revolution, 18
seduction, and the vocabulary of
recreation, 131
Semerano, Giovanni, 128, 155, 156
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus the Younger,
13, 68, 76
senses, the, in the cure of
melancholy, 40
sermons, 13–14, 15, 55–6, 84, 96,
113, 121
servants, 70
Settevecchi, Ludovico, 25
Settia, Aldo A., 148
sex
as double meaning of terms, 128,
129, 132
as evil, 41–2
as recreation, 17, 107
in theatrical performances, 62,
114
see also love; prostitution
Shahar, Shulamith, 151
Silvestro (Mazzolini) da Prierio,
Summa Sylvestrina, 54, 62
similes and metaphors concerning
recreation, 12–13, 52, 77, 88, 135
simony, 75
singing, as exercise or recreation, 23,
24, 40, 46, 82, 96, 98, 101
sins and vices, 14, 53–4, 56, 58, 62,
63, 67, 77, 78, 111, 131
as root of play, 10, 11
sleep
excessive (moral criticism), 69
as recreation, 47
sloth, 15–16, 48, 69
smells, pleasant, 47
Smithfield Decretals, 122
smoking tobacco, relation to health,
32, 40
snowballs, 32
Sobrinho, João, On Commutative
Justice, 80, 146
sociability, 7, 40, 51, 70, 82, 92, 95,
98, 107, 124, 127, 132
social theory, 6–9, 11
Socrates, 33, 76
solace, 131, 132
Sorel, Charles, La maison des jeux,
107, 112, 126, 151, 152, 154
Souter, Daniel, Palamedes, 40, 59–60,
89, 143
Sozzini, Mariano the Elder, 78, 79,
145
space, human perception of, 9
Spacks, Patricia Ann Meyer, 155
Spain, 15, 65–8, 80, 84, 118–19
passion for gambling, 41
spas, 125
Spaß, spasso, 58, 131–2
speech
as exercise, 36, 101
vs acts dichotomy, 63
Spiel, 129, 130
spinning, 95, 100
spirits, in Galenic medicine, 34, 36
sports, 131, 132
boxing, 25, 30, 74
distinguished from exercise in
general, 70
emergence of modern, 8–9, 29, 124,
125, 131
historiography, 8, 120
weightlifting, 25
wrestling, 23, 25, 29–30, 48, 74, 77,
101
Stella, Jacques, Les jeux et plaisirs de
l’enfance, 104, 105, 123, 150
Stocks, J. L., 140
stoicism, 42, 48
story telling, 16
Strong, Roy, 85, 147
Sunday observance, see
Sabbatarianism