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Playthings in early modernity : party games, word games, mind games / edited by Allison Levy.

Other author/creatorLevy, Allison M. (Allison Mary), 1968- editor.
Format Tactile Material, Book, and Print
Publication Info Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, [2017]
Copyright Notice ©2017
Descriptionxiv, 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Subject(s)
Series Ludic cultures, 1100-1700
Ludic cultures, 1100-1700. ^A1348954
Contents Introduction : playing the field / Allison Levy -- Performing pictures : parlor games and visual engagement in Ascanio de' Mori's Giuoco piacevole / Kelli Wood -- "Mixt" and matched : dance games in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe / Emily F. Winerock -- Ludic intermingling/ludic discrimination : women's card playing and visual proscriptions in early modern Europe / Antonella Fenech Kroke -- Leonardo da Vinci, parody, and pictorial magic / Chriscinda Henry -- Letter games : Machiavelli and Guicciardini in carnivalesque correspondence / Sergius Kodera -- The rules of passion and pastime : the game of lurch in a late Renaissance poem / Manfred Zollinger -- "Sportes and pastimes, done by number" : mathematical games in early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis -- Wheels of fortune : the early modern lottery book as object and game / Jessen Kelly -- Virtuous vices : Giuseppe Maria Mitelli's gambling prints and the social mapping of leisure and gender in post-tridentine Bologna / Patricia Rocco -- Trading and trick-taking in the Dutch republic : Pasquin's wind cards and the South Sea bubble / Joyce Goggin -- The problem of excessive play : Renaissance strategies of ludic governmentality / Andreas Hermann Fischer -- Imaginary cartographies and commercial commodities : playing cards and geography in early modern England / Serina Patterson -- Land of elusion : Portuguese perceptions and the matter of play and gaming in Vijayanagara / Elke Rogersdotter -- Visual frames and breaking the rules of the reconquista : chess and Alfonso X, El Sabio's Libro de ajedrez, dados, y tablas / Nhora Lucøa Serrano -- The prisoners' dilemma : strategies and ruses in the inquisitorial jails of early modern Cuenca / Patrick J. O'Banion.
Summary Contains fifteen interdisciplinary essays at the nexus of material culture, performance studies, and game theory. Emphasized in these essays are the rules of the game(s) as well as the breaking of those rules. The titular "plaything" is understood as both an object and a person, and play, in the early modern world, is treated not merely as a pastime, a leisurely pursuit, but as a pivotal part of daily life, a strategic psychosocial endeavour.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Issued in other formOnline version: Playthings in early modernity Kalamazoo : Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University, 2017 9781580442619
Genre/formHistory.
LCCN 2016046067
ISBN9781580442602 (clothbound : alk. paper)
ISBN1580442609 (clothbound : alk. paper)
ISBNebook

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