Power Play : The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Adams, Jenny, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Literature, Medieval.
Chess in literature.
Chess.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Medieval.
Échecs (Jeu) > Histoire.
Échecs (Jeu) dans la litterature.
Litterature medievale > Histoire et critique.
Chess > History.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Introduction: Chess in the Medieval World; 1: (Re)moving the King: Ideals of Civic Order in Jacobus de Cessolis's Liber de ludo scachorum; 2: Taxonomies of Desire in Les Echecs Amoureux; 3: Exchequers and Balances: Anxieties of Exchange in Chaucerian Fictions; 4: ""The Kynge must be thus Maad"": Playing with Power in Fifteenth-Century England; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Acknowledgments.

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