Power Play : : The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages / / Jenny Adams.
The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2013] ©2006 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (264 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Chess in the Medieval World
- Chapter 1. (Re )moving the King: Ideals of Civic Order in Jacobus de Cessolis's Liber de ludo scachorum
- Chapter 2. Taxonomies of Desire in Les Echecs amoureux
- Chapter 3. Exchequers and Balances: Anxieties of Exchange in Chaucerian Fictions
- Chapter 4. "The Kynge Must Be Thus Maad": Playing with Power in Fifteenth-Century England
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments