Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
- Author / Editor
- Adams, Jenny.
Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages
- Published
- Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
- Physical Description
- 252 pp.
- Series
- The Middle Ages Series
- Description
- Studies the ways that chess represents types of political and social order, examining the "Liber de Moribus Hominum et Officiis Nobilium" of Jacobus de Cessolis, "Les echecs amoureux," BD, the "Tale of Beryn," Hoccleve's "Regement of Princes," and the English translation of Jacobus's "Liber," published by Caxton as "The Game and Play of Chess." The discussions of BD and Beryn are revisions of previous publications: "Pawn Takes Knight's Queen: Playing with Chess in Chaucer's Book of the Duchess" and "Exchequers and Balances: Anxieties of Exchange in The Tale of Beryn."
- Chaucer Subjects
- Book of the Duchess
- Chaucerian Apocrypha.