Rebekka Von MallinckrodtRebekka von Mallinckrodt is Professor for Early Modern History at the University of Bremen and a Member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Germany. She has worked in the fields of religious studies, the history of the body, postcolonia and slavery studies. From 2015 to 2021, she is leading the ERC Consolidator Grant Project “The Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation and its Slaves.” With regard to sports and physical exercise she has published Bewegtes Leben – Körpertechniken in der Fru¨hen Neuzeit/Life on the Move – Body Techniques in the Early Modern Period (Harrassowitz, 2008), Sports and Physical Exercise in Early Modern Culture (with Angela Schattner, Routledge, 2016), and numerous articles on the cultural and social history of running, swimming, and diving. Read More Read Less