Ludic Cultures, 1100-1700 – serie
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Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
1 473 kr
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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.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2017
1 289 kr
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An innovative volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory, Playthings in Early Modernity emphasizes the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. Thus, the titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavor.