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Playthings in Early Modernity Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games
Title
Playthings in Early Modernity [electronic resource] : Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games / edited by Allison Levy.
ISBN
1580442617
9781580442619
1580442609
9781580442602 (clothbound : alk. paper)
Published
Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages ) : illustrations ;
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Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2017 History.
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Online version: Playthings in early modernity Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2017
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 21, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : playing the field / Allison Levy
Performing pictures : parlor games and visual engagement in Ascanio de' Mori's Giuoco piacevole / Kelli Wood
"Mixt" and matched : dance games in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe / Emily F. Winerock
Ludic intermingling/ludic discrimination : women's card playing and visual proscriptions in early modern Europe / Antonella Fenech Kroke
Leonardo da Vinci, parody, and pictorial magic / Chriscinda Henry
Letter games : Machiavelli and Guicciardini in carnivalesque correspondence / Sergius Kodera
The rules of passion and pastime : the game of lurch in a late Renaissance poem / Manfred Zollinger
"Sportes and pastimes, done by number" : mathematical games in early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis
Wheels of fortune : the early modern lottery book as object and game / Jessen Kelly
Virtuous vices : Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's gambling prints and the social mapping of leisure and gender in post-tridentine Bologna / Patricia Rocco
Trading and trick-taking in the Dutch republic : Pasquin's wind cards and the South Sea bubble / Joyce Goggin
The problem of excessive play : Renaissance strategies of ludic governmentality / Andreas Hermann Fischer
Imaginary cartographies and commercial commodities : playing cards and geography in early modern England / Serina Patterson
Land of elusion : Portuguese perceptions and the matter of play and gaming in Vijayanagara / Elke Rogersdotter
Visual frames and breaking the rules of the reconquista : chess and Alfonso X, El Sabio's Libro de ajedrez, dados, y tablas / Nhora Lucoa Serrano
The prisoners' dilemma : strategies and ruses in the inquisitorial jails of early modern Cuenca / Patrick J. O'Banion.
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