Playthings in Early Modernity Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games /: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Allison Levy.
• Editors: Levy, Allison M (Allison Mary), 1968-
• Other Names: Project Muse.
• Contents: Introduction : playing the field / Allison Levy -- Performing pictures : parlor games and visual engagement in Ascanio de' Mori's Giuoco piacevole / Kelli Wood -- "Mixt" and matched : dance games in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe / Emily F. Winerock -- Ludic intermingling/ludic discrimination : women's card playing and visual proscriptions in early modern Europe / Antonella Fenech Kroke -- Leonardo da Vinci, parody, and pictorial magic / Chriscinda Henry -- Letter games : Machiavelli and Guicciardini in carnivalesque correspondence / Sergius Kodera -- The rules of passion and pastime : the game of lurch in a late Renaissance poem / Manfred Zollinger -- "Sportes and pastimes, done by number" : mathematical games in early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis -- Wheels of fortune : the early modern lottery book as object and game / Jessen Kelly -- Virtuous vices : Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's gambling prints and the social mapping of leisure and gender in post-tridentine Bologna / Patricia Rocco -- Trading and trick-taking in the Dutch republic : Pasquin's wind cards and the South Sea bubble / Joyce Goggin -- The problem of excessive play : Renaissance strategies of ludic governmentality / Andreas Hermann Fischer -- Imaginary cartographies and commercial commodities : playing cards and geography in early modern England / Serina Patterson -- Land of elusion : Portuguese perceptions and the matter of play and gaming in Vijayanagara / Elke Rogersdotter -- Visual frames and breaking the rules of the reconquista : chess and Alfonso X, El Sabio's Libro de ajedrez, dados, y tablas / Nhora Lucoa Serrano -- The prisoners' dilemma : strategies and ruses in the inquisitorial jails of early modern Cuenca / Patrick J. O'Banion.
• Publisher Details: Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 790.1/5; Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700; Amusements -- Europe -- History -- 16th century; Games -- Europe -- History -- 16th century; HISTORY -- Renaissance; HISTORY -- Social History; Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800; LITERARY CRITICISM -- Renaissance; Europe -- Social life and customs -- 16th century; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781580442619; 1580442617
• Related ISBNs: 9781580442602; 1580442609
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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