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Games and visual culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Games and visual culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
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ISBN 2503588727 (hardcover)
9782503588728 (hardcover)
Title Games and visual culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance / edited by Vanina Kopp and Elizabeth Lapina
Publisher Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2020
Physical desc. 353 pages ; illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.
Series Studies in the history of daily life (800-1600) 8
Note CB illustrations: p. 156, fig. 7.2 (T 439.9).
Bibliography etc. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction / Vanina Kopp and Elizabeth Lapina -- Games and society. Rhetoric and reality in the visual culture of medieval Celtic board games: literary and archaeological evidence combined / Katherine Forsyth and Mark A. Hall -- 'Turne over the leef': games and interpretation on misericords / Paul Hardwick -- Gambling miners / Lena Asrih and Jennifer Garner -- Chess and cultural crossings in Boccaccio / Akash Kumar -- Visualizing chess and love in Les eschéz d'amours / Daniel E. O'Sullivan -- Games as a sign of social status: backgammon in Ottoman literature and visual culture / Tülün Değirmenci -- Chess of the gnostics: the Sufi version of Snakes and Ladders in Turkey and India / Irvin Cemil Schick -- Playthings: ivory on ivory / Elina Gertsman -- The playing eye: on the transfer of game-related knowledge through miniatures in Alfonso X's Book of games (1283/84) / Michael A. Conrad -- Children's toys in Italy, 1350-1550 / Annemarieke Willemsen -- The printed book and visual culture of chess in the late Middle Ages: William Caxton's 1483 edition of The game and playe of chess / Louise Fang -- Graffiti as gaming: Vikings at play in the Orkney Islands / Julie Mell -- Scratching the surface: graffiti games in the Byzantine Empire / Walter Crist.
Subject Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- T 439
Games -- Europe -- History
Games in art
Civilization, Medieval
Renaissance
Added name(s) Kopp, Vanina
Lapina, Elizabeth 1979-
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