Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages

Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages

by JennyAdams (Author)

Synopsis

Reading through influential texts of the later Middle Ages, Adams shows how specific representations of chess encoded concerns about political organization, civic community, and individual autonomy.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 264
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 15 Aug 2006

ISBN 10: 081223944X
ISBN 13: 9780812239447