Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
ISBN: 9780812201048
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Literature Medieval -- History and criticism; Chess in literature; Chess -- History;

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.


Jenny Adams teaches English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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