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050 4 _aPN687.C53 -- A33 2006eb
082 0 _a809/.933579
100 1 _aAdams, Jenny.
245 1 0 _aPower Play :
_bThe Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aPhiladelphia :
_bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,
_c2006.
264 4 _c©2006.
300 _a1 online resource (264 pages)
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aThe Middle Ages Series
505 0 _aCover -- 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.
520 _aReading 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aLiterature, Medieval-History and criticism.
650 0 _aChess in literature.
650 0 _aChess-History.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aAdams, Jenny
_tPower Play
_dPhiladelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press,c2006
_z9780812239447
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
830 4 _aThe Middle Ages Series
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3442075
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