Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age : : Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Toys, Games, and Entertainment / / ed. by Albrecht Classen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Abed, Sally,; Arnett, Carlee,; Benati, Chiara,; Call, Michael,; Classen, Albrecht,; Conrad, Michael A.,; Coudert, Allison P.,; Draper, Melvyn Lloyd,; Fajardo-Acosta, Fidel,; King, Sharon Diane,; Mahan, William,; Moberly, Brent,; Moberly, Kevin,; Murray, Alan V.,; Pigg, Daniel F.,; Raid, Maria,; Sandidge, Marilyn L.,; Taylor, Scott L.,; Tormey, Warren,; Tuczay, Christa Agnes,; Ukropen, Alex,; Willard, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Classen, Albrecht,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 23
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIII, 751 p.)

Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization. Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importance of these aspects in cultural, religious, philosophical, and literary terms. This volume expands on...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Pleasure and Leisure from the Middle Ages to the early Nineteenth Century
• Medieval Magicians as Entertainers: Magic as Demonic Illusion or Stagecraft
• Hestaþing (Horse Meeting/s) in Medieval Icelandic Culture
• The Transformation of the World through Pleasure and Performance in the Thousand and One Nights
• Behüde mich vor vngerechtem gude. Were Goods Won in Game “Unjustified”? Medieval Gambling
• Aldhelm’s Enigmata and the Commentaries from the Canterbury School: A Monastic Curriculum in Play
• Understanding Monastic Recreations and Luxury within the Anglo-Saxon Patristic Tradition
• Subjects of the Game: The Pleasures of Subjection in William IX’s “Ben vueill que sapchon li pluzor”
• Peregrine Pleasures: The Sport of Falconry, Lovers, and Self-Identity in Medieval German Literature
• Tourney, Joust, Foreis and Round Table: Tournament Forms in the Frauendienst of Ulrich von Liechtenstein
• Drinking, Partying, and Drunkenness in Late Medieval German Verse Narratives and Jest Narratives
• William Langland’s Attitude Toward Play, Leisure, and Pastime: A Realignment of Priorities in Post-Plague England
• The Ambraser Hofämterspiel: Playing Cards as a Visual Source for Courtly Life during the Late Middle Ages
• Gawain, Giants, and Tennis in the Fifteenth Century
• “J’ai tiré si près / Que je touche au but”: Ludic Roots, Spiritual Play in Marguerite de Navarre’s L’Inquisiteur
• Jeux Interdits: The Rationale and Limits of Clerical and Lay Efforts to Enjoin “Scurrilia Solatia”
• Randomization in Paper: Shuffling as a Material Practice with Moral Implications in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern World
• Calculated Losses: Molière, Regnard, and the Changing Comic Gamblers of Seventeenth-Century France
• “His usuall Retyrement”: Henry Vaughan’s Life and Writing during the English Civil War
• Jokes and the Eighteenth-Century Unconscious: Enlightening the Early-Modern European Id
• Enjoying the Waters: Cross-Class Leisure and Pleasure at the Eighteenth Century British Spa
• Nine Men’s Medievalisms: Conquests of the Longbow, Nine Men’s Morris, and the Impossibilities of a Half-Forgotten Game’s Ludic Past
• Biographical Notes about the Contributors
• Index