Games and gaming in medieval literature. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Serina Patterson.
• Other Names: Patterson, Serina
• 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 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 Reading Games 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.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (260 pages), 1 black and white, illustrations, 5
• Subjects: 809.02; Literature; Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism; Games in literature; Sports in literature; Games in literature; Literature, Medieval; Sports in literature; Literary Criticism -- Semiotics & Theory; Social Science -- General; Literary Criticism -- European -- General; Literary Criticism -- Ancient & Classical; Literary theory; Cultural studies; Literature: history & criticism; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literature, Medieval; European literature; Classical literature; Literary Criticism -- Medieval; Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781137497529; 1137497521
• 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.