Power Play : The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages.
Adams, Jenny.
Power Play : The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (264 pages) - The Middle Ages Series . - The Middle Ages Series .
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.
9780812201048
Literature, Medieval-History and criticism.
Chess in literature.
Chess-History.
Electronic books.
PN687.C53 -- A33 2006eb
809/.933579
Power Play : The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (264 pages) - The Middle Ages Series . - The Middle Ages Series .
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.
9780812201048
Literature, Medieval-History and criticism.
Chess in literature.
Chess-History.
Electronic books.
PN687.C53 -- A33 2006eb
809/.933579