Download or read book "Neither Letters nor Swimming": The Rebirth of Swimming and Free-diving written by John M. McManamon and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-03-01 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.”