Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature

Front Matter....Pages i-xvii
Introduction: Setting Up the Board....Pages 1-20
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
“Ludus Inhonestus Et Illicitus?” Chess, Games, and the Church in Medieval Europe....Pages 23-43
Games and Education in Medieval England....Pages 45-60
Words with Friends, Courtly Edition: The Jeux-Partis of Thibaut De Champagne....Pages 61-78
Sexy, Naughty, and Lucky in Love: Playing Ragemon le Bon in English Gentry Households....Pages 79-102
Front Matter....Pages 103-103
Church, Court, and Tavern: Games and Social Hierarchy in Some Medieval Motets....Pages 105-125
Colonizing the Otherworld in Walewein....Pages 127-145
The Knight’s Earnest Game in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales....Pages 147-168
“Rounes to Rede”: Ludic Reading Games in the Alliterative Wheel of Fortune Poem Somer Someday....Pages 169-186
Textual Games and Virtuality in Spanish Cancionero Poetry....Pages 187-208
Afterword: Medieval Ludens....Pages 209-222
Back Matter....Pages 223-241