Dice-Games and the Blasphemy of Prediction
- Author / Editor
- Purdie, Rhiannon.
Dice-Games and the Blasphemy of Prediction
- Published
- J. A. Burrow and Ian P. Wei, eds. Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages (Woodbridge, Suffolk; and Rochester, N.Y.: Boydell, 2000), pp. 167-84.
- Description
- Surveys the literary and historical context for medieval attitudes toward dicing, mentioning hazardry in PardT and the notion of divine intervention in the chances of trade in CYT.
- Alternative Title
- Medieval Futures: Attitudes to the Future in the Middle Ages.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Canon's Yeoman and His Tale.
- Pardoner and His Tale.