TY  - BOOK
AU  - Adams,Jenny
TI  - Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
T2  - The Middle Ages Series
SN  - 9780812201048
AV  - PN687.C53 -- A33 2006eb 
U1  - 809/.933579 
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - University of Pennsylvania Press
KW  - Literature, Medieval-History and criticism
KW  - Chess in literature
KW  - Chess-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3442075
ER  -