Adams, Jenny. <br/><br/>
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 .
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780812201048 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Literature, Medieval-History and criticism.<br/>Chess in literature.<br/>Chess-History.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN687.C53 -- A33 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>809/.933579