Gaming the Medieval English Text

"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the Cotton Nero A X/2 Manuscript

AvJulie Nelson Couch,Kimberly K. Bell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2025

Del i serien Ludic Cultures, 1100-1700

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Beskrivning

This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the fourteenth-century Middle English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight launches a multidimensional game with its late-fourteenth-century elite reader in its unique manuscript context, London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero A X/2. The textual and visual games of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Cotton Nero manuscript allow a fourteenth-century English Christian aristocracy to align courtly gaming with heavenly goals, thereby justifying elite amusements.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-01-15
Mått:156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt:549 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Ludic Cultures, 1100-1700
Antal sidor:265
Förlag:De Gruyter
ISBN:9781501518546

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Julie Nelson Couch is Professor of English at Texas Tech University and has published on Middle English poetry, including romances, apocryphal verse, and miracle poems, on Middle English manuscript contexts, as well as on children as characters and readers. Kimberly K. Bell, Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, has published on Middle English manuscripts, examining their contents—including romances, saints’ lives, and chansons de geste—while paying special attention to genre, narrative structure, and gaming features.

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List of FiguresList of AbbreviationsCitation NotesAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gaming the Medieval English Text1. The Text Game: The Gamemaster of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight2. The Bobs Game: The Ordinatio of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight3. The Salvation Game: Ludic Reading in Pearl, Cleanness, and Patience4. The Image Game: Gaming the IllustrationsConclusion: The Elite Game of ReadingAppendices: Playing with the BobsBibliographyNotes on AuthorsIndex