Power Play : The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages.
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Power Play : The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages.
Yazar:
Adams, Jenny.
ISBN:
9780812201048
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
1 online resource (264 pages)
Seri:
The Middle Ages Series
İçerik:
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.
Özet:
Reading through influential texts of the later Middle Ages, Adams shows how specific representations of chess encoded concerns about political organization, civic community, and individual autonomy.
Notlar:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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