O'Sullivan Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-3-11-028881-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 263 Seiten

Reihe: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Sullivan, Daniel Edmund

O'Sullivan, Daniel E.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Sport Geschichte des Sports
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction: "Le beau jeu nottable";7
2;Part I: Chess, Morality, and Politics;21
2.1;Chapter 1. Chess in Medieval German Literature: A Mirror of Social-Historical and Cultural, Religious, Ethical, and Moral Conditions;23
2.2;Chapter 2. Making Chess Politically and Socially Relevant in Times of Trouble in the Schacktavelslek;51
2.3;Chapter 3. Ludus Scaccarii: Games and Governance in Twelfth-Century England;69
2.4;Chapter 4. Defeating the Devil at Chess: A Struggle between Virtue and Vice in Le Jeu des esches de la dame moralisé;93
3;Part II: Women On and Off the Chessboard;115
3.1;Chapter 5. Medieval Chess, Perceval’s Education, and a Dialectic of Misogyny;117
3.2;Chapter 6. Images of Medieval Spanish Chess and Captive Damsels in Distress;141
3.3;Chapter 7. How did the Queen Go Mad?;175
4;Part III: Playing Games with Chess and Allegory;191
4.1;Chapter 8. Playing with Memory: The Chessboard as a Mnemonic Tool in Medieval Didactic Literature;193
4.2;Chapter 9. Changing the Rules in and of Medieval Chess Allegories;205
4.3;Chapter 10. The Limits of Allegory in Jacobus de Cessolis’ De ludo scaccorum;227
5;Selected Bibliography;247
6;Notes on the Contributors;259
7;Acknowledgments;263

Über Autor(innen)

Daniel E. O'Sullivan, University of Mississippi, USA.