Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age A Fundamental Thought Paradigm of the Premodern World

• Chapter 5. Medieval Chess, Perceval's Education, and a Dialectic of MisogynyChapter 6. Images of Medieval Spanish Chess and Captive Damsels in Distress; Chapter 7. How did the Queen Go Mad?; Part III: Playing Games with Chess and Allegory; Chapter 8. Playing with Memory: The Chessboard as a Mnemonic Tool in Medieval Didactic Literature; Chapter 9. Changing the Rules in and of Medieval Chess Allegories; Chapter 10. The Limits of Allegory in Jacobus de Cessolis' De ludo scaccorum; Selected Bibliography; Notes on the Contributors; Acknowledgments.
• Introduction: "Le beau jeu nottable"; Part I: Chess, Morality, and Politics; Chapter 1. Chess in Medieval German Literature: A Mirror of Social-Historical and Cultural, Religious, Ethical, and Moral Conditions; Chapter 2. Making Chess Politically and Socially Relevant in Times of Trouble in the Schacktavelslek; Chapter 3. Ludus Scaccarii: Games and Governance in Twelfth-Century England; Chapter 4. Defeating the Devil at Chess: A Struggle between Virtue and Vice in Le Jeu des esches de la dame moralisé; Part II: Women On and Off the Chessboard.

• More than a mere pastime, chess was an important pedagogical tool and thought paradigm in the Middle Ages. Much like people today who speak in sports metaphors, the people of medieval Europe related life to chess, making comparisons on and off the board to war, politics, love, and the social order. In this collection of essays, scholars investigate chess texts from various European traditions and make the case for seeing chess as an important key to understanding medieval culture

• More than a mere pastime, chess was an important pedagogical tool and thought paradigm in the Middle Ages. Much like people today who speak in sports metaphors, the people of medieval Europe related life to chess, making comparisons on and off the board to war, politics, love, and the social order. In this collection of essays, scholars investigate chess texts from various European traditions and make the case for seeing chess as an important key to understanding medieval culture. Daniel E. O'Sullivan, University of Mississippi, USA.

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