Table of Contents

1. Medieval Córdoba: From Umayyad Recreations to Competitive Christian Sport José Antonio Funes-Pérez, Juan Rodríguez-López and Alfonso Manas 2. Art Works as Sources for Sport History Research: The Example of ‘Sports Allegory/ The Crowning of the Athletes’ by Charles Louis Frédy de Coubertin Natalia Camps Y Wilant 3. Salvador López Gómez: Apostle of Gymnastics in Spain Gonzalo Ramírez-Macías and José P. Sanchís Ramírez 4. Sport Versus Bullfighting: The New Civilizing Sensitivity of Regenerationism and its Effect on the Leisure Pursuits of the Spanish at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century Antonio Rivero Herraiz and Raúl Sánchez-García 5. Football with Friends? How the German Sporting Press Covered the German–Danish Sports Collaboration, 1939–1944 Christian Tolstrup Jensen 6. Between Survival Strategy and Bloody Violence: Boxing in Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camps (1940–1945) Doriane Gomet 7. Reshaping Spanish Football Identity in the 1940s: From Fury to Tactics Carlos García-Martí 8. How the Touring Club de France Influenced the Development of Winter Tourism Pierre-Olaf Schut 9. Stakeholders, Challenges and Issues at a Co-Hosted Youth Olympic Event: Lessons Learned from the European Youth Olympic Festival in 2015 Elsa Kristiansen, Anna-Maria Strittmatter and Berit Skirstad 10. Historical Frameworks and Sporting Research Gary James

About the Author

Annette R. Hofmann, Professor for Sports Studies at the Ludwigsburg University of Education in Germany, and head of the sport department. President of the International Society for the History of Sport and Physical Education (ISHPES) and Vice President of the German Gymnastic Federation (Deutsche Turner-Bund). Academic Editor Europe of the IJHS. Main research areas in sport history: German–American Sports, Gender and Sport, History of Skiing.