1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910827809203321

Titolo

Essex : the cultural impact of an Elizabethan courtier / / edited by Annaliese Connolly and Lisa Hopkins

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Manchester, [England] ; ; New York : , : Manchester University Press, , 2014

New York, New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , [date of distribution not identified]

©2014

ISBN

1-5261-1099-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

942.0550924

Soggetti

Favorites, Royal - England

LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance

Great Britain Court and courtiers History 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

ESSEK: The cultural impact of an Elizabethan courtier; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Annaliese Connolly and Lisa Hopkins; Part I: Essex: patron and patronage; 1. 'Cleverly playing the stoic': the Earl of Essex, Sir Philip Sidney and surviving Elizabeth's court: Richard Wood; 2. Essexianism and the work of Gervase Markham: Matthew Steggle; 3. Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and the practice of theatre: Grace Ioppolo

4. Essex's international agenda in 1595 and his device of the Indian Prince: Linda ShenkPart II: Self-fashioning; 5. 'Achilles alter': the heroic lives and afterlives of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex: Andrew Hiscock; 6. 'Bringing rebellion broached on his sword': Essex and Ireland: Chris Butler and Willy Maley; 7. Essex's last campaign: the fall of the Earl of Essex and manuscript circulation: Andrew Gordon; Illustrations; 8. 'Idle papers': An Apology of the Earl of Essex: Hugh Gazzard; 9. 'Toucht with bolt of Treason': the Earl of Essex and Lady Penelope Rich: Chris Laoutaris

10. The Earl of Essex and 'politic history': Alexandra GajdaPart III:



Afterlives; 11. Prodigality and the Earl of Essex: Mary Partridge; 12. The Earl of Essex and the Duke of Windsor: Elizabeth and Essex on film: Essex on film; Select bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910967953403321

Autore

Lebed Felix

Titolo

Complexity and control in team sports : dialectics in contesting human systems / / Felix Lebed and Michael Bar-Eli

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-66114-X

0-203-80727-8

1-299-31943-2

1-136-66115-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (473 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in sport and exercise science ; ; 6

Altri autori (Persone)

Bar-EliMichael

Disciplina

796.06/9

Soggetti

Sports sciences

Team sports

Sports - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Methodological aspects of complexity in team sports -- pt. 2. Individuals in team contests : the complexity point of view -- pt. 3. Complexity in sport teams and organizations -- pt. 4. Applying the complexity approach.

Sommario/riassunto

Complexity and Control in Team Sports is the first book to apply complex systems theory to 'soccer-like' team games (including basketball, handball and hockey) and to present a framework for understanding and managing the elite sports team as a multi-level complex system. Conventional organizational studies have tended to define team sports as a set of highly heterogeneous physical, mental and cognitive activities within which it is difficult, if not impossible, to



find common behavioural playing regularities or universal pedagogies for controlling those activities. Adopting a whol