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Neither Letters nor Swimming : (Record no. 25101)

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International Standard Book Number 9789004446199
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Canceled/invalid ISBN 9789004446205
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System control number (MiAaPQ)EBC6508518
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System control number (Au-PeEL)EBL6508518
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System control number (OCoLC)1241447878
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050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number GV836.4 .M363 2021
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name McManamon, John M.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Neither Letters nor Swimming :
Remainder of title the Rebirth of Swimming and Free-Diving.
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Edition statement 1st ed.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Boston :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer BRILL,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2021.
264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice ©2021.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (483 pages)
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Carrier type term online resource
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Brill's Studies in Maritime History Series ;
Volume/sequential designation v.9
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Classical Notion of an Art -- 2 The Classical Proverb -- 3 Classical Clues for Swimming as an Art -- Part 1 Ancient Legacy -- Chapter 1 The Art of Swimming: Rationale and Training -- 1 The Age for Learning to Swim -- 2 Swimming Technology -- 3 Swimming and the Natural Environment -- 4 Swim Strokes -- 5 Learning to Swim -- Chapter 2 The Art of Swimming in Practice -- 1 Rescuers -- 2 The Further Benefits of Swimming -- 3 Swimming for Pay -- Chapter 3 The Profession of Free-Diving: Rationale and Training -- 1 Free-Diving as Metaphor -- 2 Terminology and Labor Organization -- 3 Training and Gender -- Chapter 4 Free-Diving to Earn a Living -- 1 Diving for Sponges -- 2 Diving for Other Marine Species -- 3 Underwater Mining and Salvage -- 4 Building Activities (Villas / Ports / Bridges) -- Chapter 5 Military Diving and Swimming: The Open Seas -- 1 Free-Diving for Military Purposes -- 2 Swimming for Military Purposes -- 3 Organized Rescue -- 4 Self-Rescue -- 5 Technological Aids -- Chapter 6 From the Open Seas to Rivers and Lakes -- 1 Greek Mercenaries in Persia -- 2 A Contrast: Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar -- 3 The Macedonians and Rome's Militarization -- 4 Swimming Enemies -- 5 The Batavi as Supreme Swimming Auxiliaries -- 6 Swimming Heroes Battle River Gods -- Chapter 7 The End of the Ancient Tradition and Nonnus of Panopolis -- 1 Vegetius on Training -- 2 Late Antique Poets and Historians on Military Swimming -- 3 A Shift in Mood: Ausonius and Erotic Aquatics -- 4 Nonnus and the Celebration of Erotic Aquatics -- 5 Hero and Leander on Stage and in Epyllion -- 6 Nonnus bis: Literary Evidence for Free-Diving -- Part 2 Medieval Impoverishment -- Chapter 8 Legendary Aquatic Feats of the Middle Ages -- 1 Swimming and Diving in the Early Middle Ages.
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Formatted contents note 2 Aquatic Feats of the Heroes of Sagas and Epic -- 3 Free-Diving Heroes of Medieval Legend -- 4 Swimming and Free-Diving in Northern European Histories -- Chapter 9 The Medieval Profession of Free-Diving -- 1 Medieval Salvage Diving in Law and Practice -- 2 Free-Diving for Pearls in the Middle Ages -- 3 Free-Diving for Coral in the Middle Ages -- 4 Dante's Free-Diver Simile -- Part 3 The Renaissance Conceptualization of Swimming and Free-Diving -- Chapter 10 Erasmus, Nicolas Wynman, and the First Art of Swimming -- 1 The Intuition: Italian Treatises on Education in the Humanities -- 2 The Imprimatur: The Adages of Erasmus -- 3 The Innovator: Wynman's Latin Dialogue on How to Swim -- Chapter 11 A Cambridge Don Tackles Swimming -- 1 Digby's Dedication to Richard Wortley -- 2 Why: Digby's Rationale for Swimming as an Art -- 3 When and Where -- 4 How: Entries, Strokes, and Rotation -- 5 How: Methods of Turning Around -- 6 How: Fun Things to Do (Festivitates) -- 7 Head-First Diving and Free-Diving (Urinatio) -- 8 Novelty and Survival -- Chapter 12 Scholars and Engineers Contribute -- 1 Swimming as Ideal and Metaphor -- 2 Renaissance Engineers and Swimming -- 3 Renaissance Engineers and Diving -- Chapter 13 Diving in the Renaissance -- 1 Traditional Tasks -- 2 Renaissance Origins of Archaeological Diving -- 3 Science, Mathematics, and Italian Salvage Companies -- 4 Globalization -- Conclusion -- 1 Proverbial Ignorance in the Classical World -- 2 The Legacy of Antiquity -- 3 The Middle Ages: Legendary Swimmers -- 4 The Rebirth of Swimming -- 5 The Impact on Free-Diving -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Index.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In "Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving, John McManamon documents the revival of interest in swimming during the European Renaissance and its conceptualization as an art. Renaissance scholars realized that the ancients considered one truly ignorant who knew "neither letters nor swimming.".
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Local note Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
776 08 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Print version:
Main entry heading McManamon, John M.
Title Neither Letters nor Swimming : the Rebirth of Swimming and Free-Diving
Place, publisher, and date of publication Boston : BRILL,c2021
International Standard Book Number 9789004446205
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element ProQuest (Firm)
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Brill's Studies in Maritime History Series
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6508518">https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=6508518</a>
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