What exactly is it doing in the castle? Why do the poem's authors, Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, make it the story's central focus? 3 We can start to answer these questions by looking at the ways the game represents a type of political order conspicuously missing from Arthur's court.
2 In the world of romance, where tests of a hero's prowess most often revolve around jousts or battles, the magic chess set comes as somewhat of a surprise. His pursuit of the chess set occupies the rest of the poem. When no one moves, an exasperated Arthur declares that he will fetch the set himself, prompting Walewein, Arthur's nephew and favorite knight, to intervene and accept the mission. 1 Bewitched by the set, the king offers to bequeath his land and his title to the knight who retrieves it. Yet the knights hesitate to touch it, and the board and its pieces soon fly back out the window. As the assembled company finishes the meal, a magic chess set floats in through an open window and settles on the floor, bedazzling the onlookers. Philip Sidney, Defence of Poesyġ2 Introduction: Chess in the Medieval World In the opening pages of Roman van Walewein, a Middle Dutch romance from the thirteenth century, King Arthur calls his court together for one of his legendary banquets.
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Series: Middle Ages series PN687.C53 A ' "dCĨ Contents Introduction: Chess in the Medieval World 1 1 (Re)moving the King: Ideals of Civic Order in Jacobus de Cessolis's Liber de ludo scachorum 15 2 Taxonomies of Desire in Les Echecs amoureux 57 3 Exchequers and Balances: Anxieties of Exchange in Chaucerian Fictions 95 4 "The Kynge Must Be Thus Maad": Playing with Power in Fifteenth-Century England 122 Epilogue 156 Notes 165 Bibliography 225 Index 245 Acknowledgments 251ġ0 We see we cannot play at chess but that we must give names to our chess-men and yet, me thinks, he were a very partial champion of truth that would say we lied for giving a piece of wood the reverend title of a bishop. Literature, Medieval-History and criticism. paper) Includes bibliographical references and index. 3 THE MIDDLE AGES SERIES Ruth Mazo Karras, Series Editor Edward Peters, Founding Editor A complete list of books in the series is available from the publisher.Ĥ Power Play The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages Jenny Adams PENN University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphiaĥ Copyright 2006 University of Pennsylvania Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper Published by University of Pennsylvania Press Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data Adams, Jenny, Power play : the literature and politics of chess in the Late Middle Ages I Jenny Adams p.
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