Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature

1. Introduction: Setting Up the Board
Serina Patterson

Part I. Spaces of Play

2. “Ludus Inhonestus Et Illicitus?” Chess, Games, and the Church in Medieval Europe
Robert Bubczyk

3. Games and Education in Medieval England
Nicholas Orme

4. Words with Friends, Courtly Edition: The Jeux-Partis of Thibaut De Champagne
Daniel E. O’Sullivan

5. Sexy, Naughty, and Lucky in Love: Playing Ragemon le Bon in English Gentry Households
Serina Patterson

Part II. Game and Genre

6. Church, Court, and Tavern: Games and Social Hierarchy in Some Medieval Motets
Tamsyn Rose-Steel

7. Colonizing the Otherworld in Walewein
Jenny Adams

8. The Knight’s Earnest Game in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales
Nora Corrigan

9. “Rounes to Rede”: Ludic Reading Games in the Alliterative Wheel of Fortune Poem Somer Someday
Kimberly Bell

10. Textual Games and Virtuality in Spanish Cancionero Poetry
Juan Escourido

11. Afterword: Medieval Ludens
Betsy McCormick

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