Games Medieval Women Play
- Author / Editor
- McDonald, Nicola F.
Games Medieval Women Play
- Published
- Carolyn P. Collette, ed. The Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2006), pp. 176-97.
- Description
- McDonald describes the principles and operation of two late medieval ribald games of "amorous divination" - Ragman Roll and Chaunce of Dice - as a means to explore the female audience for such games and related literature, particularly LGW. "Demandes d'amour" and sexual riddles reveal that elite medieval women participated in ludic, sexually explicit discourse and double entendre.
- Alternative Title
- Legend of Good Women: Context and Reception.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Legend of Good Women.