Games and gaming in medieval literature. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Serina Patterson.
• Editors: Patterson, Serina, 1985-
• Contents: 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 <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Jeux-Partis of Thibaut de Champagne; Daniel E. O'Sullivan; 4. Sexy, Naughty, and Lucky in Love: Playing <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Ragemon <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">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 <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Walewein ; Jenny Adams; 7. The Knight's Earnest Game in Chaucer's <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">The Canterbury Tales ; Nora Corrigan; 8. "Rounes to Rede": Ludic Reading Games in the Alliterative Wheel of Fortune Poem Somer Soneday; Kimberly Bell; 9. Textual Games and Virtuality in Spanish <SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Cancionero Poetry; Juan Escourido; Afterword: Medieval Ludens; Betsy McCormick
• Publisher Details: New York : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 809.933579; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Games in literature; Sports in literature; Semiotics & Theory; European/General; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137497536
• Related ISBNs: 113749753X; 9781137311030
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.