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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Middle Ages SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (264 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780812201048
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Power PlayDDC classification:
  • 809/.933579
LOC classification:
  • PN687.C53 -- A33 2006eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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.

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