Power Play : The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages PDF
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Power Play THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES Ruth Mazo Karras, Series Editor Edward Peters, Founding Editor A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher. Power Play The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages Jenny Adams PENN University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia Copyright © 2006 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112 Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data Adams, Jenny, 1969- Power play : the literature and politics of chess in the Late Middle Ages I Jenny Adams p. em. (Middle Ages series) ISBN-13: 978-08122-3944-7 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: o-8122-3944-X (alk. paper) Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Literature, Medieval-History and criticism. 2. Chess in literature. 3. Chess History. I. Title. II. Series: Middle Ages series PN687.C53 A33 2006 809'933579---"dC22 2006042135 For Jeff Contents Introduction: Chess in the Medieval World 1 1 (Re)moving the King: Ideals of Civic Order in Jacobus de Cessolis's Liber de ludo scachorum 15 2 Taxonomies of Desire in Les Echecs amoureux 57 3 Exchequers and Balances: Anxieties of Exchange in Chaucerian Fictions 95 4 "The Kynge Must Be Thus Maad": Playing with Power in Fifteenth-Century England 122 Epilogue 156 Notes 165 Bibliography 225 Index 245 Acknowledgments 251 We see we cannot play at chess but that we must give names to our chess-men; and yet, me thinks, he were a very partial champion of truth that would say we lied for giving a piece of wood the reverend title of a bishop. -Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesy
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