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The Game and Playe of the Chesse

Af: William Caxton Engelsk Paperback

The Game and Playe of the Chesse

Af: William Caxton Engelsk Paperback
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First printed in 1474, the English printer William Caxton’s The Game and Playe of the Chesse says little about the game of chess, despite its title. Instead, both Caxton’s Middle English translation and its Latin source, a thirteenth-century treatise by the Dominican friar Jacobus de Cessolis, use chess as an allegory for a political community whose citizens serve the common good. Assigning each chess piece to a real-world counterpart and a corresponding moral code, this example of the speculum regis, or “mirror for a prince,” genre envisions a kingdom not bound together by kinship, but organized by professional ties and governed by moral law. Moral exempla and maxims drawn from classical sources, which illustrate these principles while engaging the reader, comprise the bulk of the work until its final chapter finally introduces the playe of chess, using rules largely unchanged since the game’s introduction to Europe in the tenth century.

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First printed in 1474, the English printer William Caxton’s The Game and Playe of the Chesse says little about the game of chess, despite its title. Instead, both Caxton’s Middle English translation and its Latin source, a thirteenth-century treatise by the Dominican friar Jacobus de Cessolis, use chess as an allegory for a political community whose citizens serve the common good. Assigning each chess piece to a real-world counterpart and a corresponding moral code, this example of the speculum regis, or “mirror for a prince,” genre envisions a kingdom not bound together by kinship, but organized by professional ties and governed by moral law. Moral exempla and maxims drawn from classical sources, which illustrate these principles while engaging the reader, comprise the bulk of the work until its final chapter finally introduces the playe of chess, using rules largely unchanged since the game’s introduction to Europe in the tenth century.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 164
ISBN-13: 9781580441308
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1580441300
Kategori: Middelalderens engelsk
Udg. Dato: 1 maj 2009
Længde: 0mm
Bredde: 178mm
Højde: 254mm
Forlag: Medieval Institute Publications
Oplagsdato: 1 maj 2009
Forfatter(e): William Caxton
Forfatter(e) William Caxton

Kategori Middelalderens engelsk

ISBN-13 9781580441308

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 164

Udgave

Længde 0mm

Bredde 178mm

Højde 254mm

Udg. Dato 1 maj 2009

Oplagsdato 1 maj 2009

Forlag Medieval Institute Publications

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