论中世纪英国体育的特征

A Study on the Features of Sports in Medieval England

体育与社会存在密切联系,是研究特定区域社会文化的重要切入点。作为传统体育的重要阶段,中世纪英国体育在发展中受自然环境、历史经历、政治体制、社会结构及思想观念等影响,呈现出源头的多样化、运动的军事化、消费的等级化及群体的性别化等特征。体育活动客观上丰富了英国民众生活,释放了人们的生活压力,在调适社会关系和稳固封建等级制度方面发挥了重要作用。

The close link between sports and society is an important entry point to study the history and culture of a particular region.As an important stage of traditional sports,the medieval English sports developed its own characteristics such as diver-sification of sources,military style of sports,hierarchical consumption and groups based on gender,which were influenced by natural environment,historical experiences,political system,social structure and ideological system,etc.in its development.Objectively,sports enriched the social life,released people's pressure and played an important role in adjusting social relations and stabilizing the feudal hierarchical system.