John Marshall Carter

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John Marshall Carter (born June 4, 1949 in Elon , North Carolina ) is an American historian , sports historian and singer-songwriter .

Career

After high school, Carter attended private Elon University in his hometown (BA in History and Social Sciences, 1971), received his MA in History as a major from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (Thesis: The Norman Conquest: Ten Centuries of Interpretation , 1975) and finally received his PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Diss .: Rape in medieval English society, 1208-1321. PhD. 1983). He worked as a professor of medieval history at Georgia Southern University , East Carolina University and Oglethorpe University in Atlanta , Georgia, and as a visiting scholar at the University of Göttingen , before being responsible for student teaching and high school basketball in Atlanta -Trainer became. He holds a Georgia State teaching qualification of 12 high school subjects. After his retirement, he started his own publishing house for teaching materials. As a singer / songwriter and band leader of the Wampus Cats , he has traveled all over the American South.

Scientific importance

Carter is the most important contemporary English-speaking historian of sports history in the Middle Ages, who systematically evaluated legal sources with regard to fighting, games and sports.

Works

  • Carter, JM 1977. Measured out with coffee spoons. Birmingham, Ala. : Thom Henricks Associates
  • Carter, JM 1978. Wampus cats and Dan River rimes: poems. Fayetteville, NC: Leaksville Press
  • Carter, JM 1978. A leap of reason and other poems. Birmingham, Ala. : Thom Henricks Associates
  • Carter, JM 1980. The military and social significance of ballad singing in the English Civil War, 1642-1649. Manhattan, Kan. : Military Affairs / Aerospace Historian Pub.
  • Carter, JM 1980. Sport in the Bayeux tapestry. Canadian Journal of History of Sport. May: 36-60.
  • Carter, JM 1980. The Norman Conquest in English historiography. Manhattan, Kan. : Military Affairs / Aerospace Historian Pub.,
  • Carter, JM 1981. Ludi Medi Aevi: Studies in the history of Medieval sport. Manhattan, Kansas: Military Affairs Publishing.
  • Carter, JM 1984. William Fitzstephen and London Sports in the Late Twentieth Century. American Benedectine Review 35: 2: 146-152.
  • Carter, JM 1985. Sport, War, and the three orders of feudal society, 700-1300. Military Affairs. 49: 132-139.
  • Carter, JM 1985. Rape in medieval England. Lanham, Md: University Press of America, ISBN 978-0819145048
  • Carter, JM 1987. Confessions of a Space Cadet: Transformation of a Teacher. Hamilton Press
  • Carter, JM 1988. Sports and pastimes of the Middle Ages. New York: University Press of America.
  • Carter, JM 1988. Sports and recreations in thirteenth-century England. The evidence of the Eyre and Coroners' rolls. A research note. Journal of Sport History. 5: 167-173.
  • Carter, JM, 1988. The Study of Medieval Sports. Stadium: International magazine for the history of sport. 14: 149-161.
  • Carter, JM 1990. Games Early Medieval People Played. Sidonius, Apollinaris and Gallo-Roman-German Sport. Nikephorus. 3: 225-231.
  • Carter, JM, Arnd Kruger . 1990. Ritual and record. Sports records and quantification in pre-modern societies. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press.
  • Carter, JM 1991. A Research Note: Further Evidence of Sports Records in the Middle Ages. International Journal of History of Sport. 8: 417-419.
  • Carter, JM 1992. Medieval games: sports and recreations in feudal society. New York: Greenwood Press.
  • Carter, JM, 2006. Sport in the Bayeux Tapestry. Reprinted in A History of Sport and Physical Education in the Middle Ages, ed. Earle F. Zeigler (Victoria, BC, Canada: Trafford Publishing, 2006), pp. 11-18.
  • Carter, JM, 2006. The Study of Medieval Sports: A Fifteen-Year Reflection. Sport History Review (Spring, 2006), pp. 18-27.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Carter, JM 2000. Sports History in Medieval Biographies: William Marshal (ca. 1146–1219). Arnd Krüger and Bernd Wedemeyer-Kolwe (eds.): Learning sports history from biographies: Festschrift for the 90th birthday of Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Henze . Hoya: Lower Saxony Institute for Sports History , pp. 67–78 (transl. Arnd Krüger).
  2. ↑ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/02/05/medieval-sports-an-interview-with-john-marshall-carter/
personal data
SURNAME Carter, John Marshall
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sports historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Elon , North Carolina