Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World
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Daniel E. O'Sullivan
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Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World
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Walter de Gruyter GmbH& Co.KG
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9783110288810
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Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern CultureISSN
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CHF 137.50
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Kulturgeschichte
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English
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263
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< >More than a mere pastime, chess was an important pedagogical tool and thought paradigm in the Middle Ages. Much like people today who speak in sports metaphors, the people of medieval Europe related life to chess, making comparisons on and off the board to war, politics, love, and the social order. In this collection of essays, scholars investigate chess texts from various European traditions and make the case for seeing chess as an important key to understanding medieval culture.
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Daniel E. O'Sullivan,
Universit of Mississippi, USA.
Introduction:
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Part I: Chess, Morality, and Politics
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Chapter 1. Chess in Medieval German Literature: A Mirror of Social-Historical and Cultural, Religious, Ethical, and Moral Conditions
23
Chapter 2. Making Chess Politically and Socially Relevant in Times of Trouble in the Schacktavelslek
51
Chapter 3. Ludus Scaccarii: Games and Governance in Twelfth-Century England
69
Chapter 4. Defeating the Devil at Chess: A Struggle between Virtue and Vice in Le Jeu des esches de la dame moralisé
93
Part II: Women On and Off the Chessboard
115
Chapter 5. Medieval Chess, Perceval’s Education, and a Dialectic of Misogyny
117
Chapter 6. Images of Medieval Spanish Chess and Captive Damsels in Distress
141
Chapter 7. How did the Queen Go Mad?
175
Part III: Playing Games with Chess and Allegory
191
Chapter 8. Playing with Memory: The Chessboard as a Mnemonic Tool in Medieval Didactic Literature
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Chapter 9. Changing the Rules in and of Medieval Chess Allegories
205
Chapter 10. The Limits of Allegory in Jacobus de Cessolis’ De ludo scaccorum
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Selected Bibliography
247
Notes on the Contributors
259
Acknowledgments
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