Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : playing the field / Allison Levy
  • Performing pictures : parlor games and visual engagement in Ascanio de' Mori's Giuoco piacevole / Kelli Wood
  • "Mixt" and matched : dance games in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe / Emily F. Winerock
  • Ludic intermingling/ludic discrimination : women's card playing and visual proscriptions in early modern Europe / Antonella Fenech Kroke
  • Leonardo da Vinci, parody, and pictorial magic / Chriscinda Henry
  • Letter games : Machiavelli and Guicciardini in carnivalesque correspondence / Sergius Kodera
  • The rules of passion and pastime : the game of lurch in a late Renaissance poem / Manfred Zollinger
  • "Sportes and pastimes, done by number" : mathematical games in early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis
  • Predictive play : wheels of fortune in the early modern lottery book / Jessen Kelly
  • Virtuous vices : Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's gambling prints and the social mapping of leisure and gender in post-tridentine Bologna / Patricia Rocco
  • Trading and trick taking in the Dutch republic : Pasquin's wind cards and the South Sea bubble / Joyce Goggin
  • The problem of excessive play : Renaissance strategies of ludic governmentality / Andreas Hermann Fischer
  • Imaginary cartographies and commercial commodities : geography and playing cards in early modern England / Serina Patterson
  • Land of elusion : Portuguese perceptions and the matter of play and gaming in Vijayanagara / Elke Rogersdotter
  • Visual frames and breaking the rules of the reconquista : chess and Alfonso X, El Sabio's Libro de ajedrez, dados y tablas / Nhora Lucía Serrano
  • The prisoners' dilemma : strategies and ruses in the inquisitorial jails of early modern Cuenca / Patrick J. O'Banion.