Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature

2015. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-137-31103-0
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 241 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 4287 g

Reihe: The New Middle Ages

The first-of-its-kind, Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature explores the depth and breadth of games in medieval literature and culture. Chapters span from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, and cover England, France, Denmark, Poland, and Spain, re-examining medieval games in diverse social settings such as the church, court, and household.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patterson, Serina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

"Introduction: Setting Up the Board
PART I: SPACES OF PLAY
1. ""Ludus inhonestus et illicitus?"" Chess, Games, and the Church in Medieval Europe; Robert Bubczyk
2. Games and Education in Medieval England; Nicholas Orme
3. Words with Friends, Courtly Edition: The Jeux-Partis of Thibaut de Champagne; Daniel E. O''Sullivan
4. Sexy, Naughty, and Lucky in Love: Playing Ragemon le Bon in English Gentry Households; Serina Patterson
PART II: GAME AND GENRE
5. Church, Court, and Tavern: Games and Social Hierarchy in Some Medieval Motets; Tamsyn Rose-Steel
6. Colonizing the Otherworld in Walewein; Jenny Adams
7. The Knight''s Earnest Game in Chaucer''s The Canterbury Tales; Nora Corrigan
8. ""Rounes to Rede"": Ludic ReadingGames in the Alliterative Wheel of Fortune Poem Somer Soneday; Kimberly Bell
9. Textual Games and Virtuality in Spanish Cancionero Poetry; Juan Escourido
Afterword: Medieval Ludens; Betsy McCormick

Über Autor(innen)

Robert Bubczyk, Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University, Poland
Nicholas Orme, University of Exeter, UK
Daniel E. O'Sullivan, University of Mississippi, USA
Tamsyn Rose-Steel, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts, USA
Nora Corrigan, Mississippi University for Women, USA
Kimberly Bell, Sam Houston State University, USA
Juan Ecourido, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Betsy McCormick, Mount San Antonio College, USA