Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age

1 - Introduction: "Le beau jeu nottable" [Seite 7]
2 - Part I: Chess, Morality, and Politics [Seite 21]
2.1 - Chapter 1. Chess in Medieval German Literature: A Mirror of Social-Historical and Cultural, Religious, Ethical, and Moral Conditions [Seite 23]
2.2 - Chapter 2. Making Chess Politically and Socially Relevant in Times of Trouble in the Schacktavelslek [Seite 51]
2.3 - Chapter 3. Ludus Scaccarii: Games and Governance in Twelfth-Century England [Seite 69]
2.4 - Chapter 4. Defeating the Devil at Chess: A Struggle between Virtue and Vice in Le Jeu des esches de la dame moralisé [Seite 93]
3 - Part II: Women On and Off the Chessboard [Seite 115]
3.1 - Chapter 5. Medieval Chess, Perceval's Education, and a Dialectic of Misogyny [Seite 117]
3.2 - Chapter 6. Images of Medieval Spanish Chess and Captive Damsels in Distress [Seite 141]
3.3 - Chapter 7. How did the Queen Go Mad? [Seite 175]
4 - Part III: Playing Games with Chess and Allegory [Seite 191]
4.1 - Chapter 8. Playing with Memory: The Chessboard as a Mnemonic Tool in Medieval Didactic Literature [Seite 193]
4.2 - Chapter 9. Changing the Rules in and of Medieval Chess Allegories [Seite 205]
4.3 - Chapter 10. The Limits of Allegory in Jacobus de Cessolis' De ludo scaccorum [Seite 227]
5 - Selected Bibliography [Seite 247]
6 - Notes on the Contributors [Seite 259]
7 - Acknowledgments [Seite 263]