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Breaking records and challenging the limits of human ability are central to much of our understanding of athletic track and field sports, with a world record title arguably as valued as an Olympic gold medal. Some particular limits and records take on greater significance, however, as in the case of the Four-Minute Mile which was roundly believed to be impossible until Roger Bannister shattered the illusion with half a second to spare in May 1954.

These essays look at the background of Bannister's achievement and the meaning that was ascribed to it by the media and the public at...

1997 British Society of Sports History - Lord Aberdare Literary Prize for Sports History

Compared with modes of representation such as literature, drama, poetry and dance, the world of sport has been largely neglected in postcolonial studies. At both local and global levels, however, sport has been profoundly affected by the colonial legacy. How are individual nations and different sporting cultures coping with this legacy? What does the end of colonialism mean within particular states and sports? How is postcolonialism linked with struggles of race and identity?

Sport was a major tool of colonial power and postcolonialism manifests itself in the modern sporting world in...

Farbig und anschaulich erzählt der Historiker Anthony Bale, wie es war, im Mittelalter durch die Welt zu reisen: Ob Pilgerinnen oder Kaufleute, Ritter, Mönche oder Spione - schon damals packte die Menschen die Leidenschaft für das Reisen. Getrieben von Fernweh und Abenteuerlust die einen, auf der Suche nach religiöser Erleuchtung oder Ruhm auf dem Kreuzzug die anderen. Für alle war die Reise lang und gefährlich, gute Vorbereitung und ein Reiseführer mit Tipps für Rast und Übernachtung und Hinweisen auf Gefahren waren unerlässlich.
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Focusing specifically on the issue of genre methodology in Acts, Bale presents work which will have clear ramifications for the study of biblical texts in general. The first part of the work surveys the state of genre theory in Acts scholarship and demonstrates its inadequacy for both classifying and interpreting Acts. Bale constructs a new genre model rooted in contemporary genre theory, tackling the problematic issue in Biblical scholarship of the relationship between history and fiction in literature. From this theoretical analysis Bale presents a new, pragmatic model for genre which is...