Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages

Jenny Adams

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 2006

Power Play

The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages

Jenny Adams

In the series The Middle Ages Series

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201048

Overview
Contents

About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Jenny Adams teaches English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction: Chess in the Medieval World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Chapter 1. (Re )moving the King: Ideals of Civic Order in Jacobus de Cessolis's Liber de ludo scachorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. Taxonomies of Desire in Les Echecs amoureux Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Chapter 3. Exchequers and Balances: Anxieties of Exchange in Chaucerian Fictions Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	95
Chapter 4. "The Kynge Must Be Thus Maad": Playing with Power in Fifteenth-Century England Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	122
Epilogue Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Illustrations
- Other: 9 illus.
Keywords: Literature; Medieval and Renaissance Studies

eBook

Published: March 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780812201048