Games and Gaming in Medieval Literature

Robert Bubczyk, Maria Curie-Sk?odowska University, Poland Nicholas Orme, University of Exeter, UK Daniel E. O'Sullivan, University of Mississippi, USA Tamsyn Rose-Steel, Johns Hopkins University, USA Jenny Adams, University of Massachusetts, USA Nora Corrigan, Mississippi University for Women, USA Kimberly Bell, Sam Houston State University, USA Juan Ecourido, University of Pennsylvania, USA Betsy McCormick, Mount San Antonio College, USA

"Introduction: Setting Up the Board
PART I: SPACES OF PLAY1. ""Ludus inhonestus et illicitus?"" Chess, Games, and the Church in Medieval Europe; Robert Bubczyk2. Games and Education in Medieval England; Nicholas Orme3. Words with Friends, Courtly Edition: The Jeux-Partis of Thibaut de Champagne; Daniel E. O''Sullivan4. Sexy, Naughty, and Lucky in Love: Playing Ragemon le Bon in English Gentry Households; Serina PattersonPART II: GAME AND GENRE5. Church, Court, and Tavern: Games and Social Hierarchy in Some Medieval Motets; Tamsyn Rose-Steel6. Colonizing the Otherworld in Walewein; Jenny Adams7. The Knight''s Earnest Game in Chaucer''s The Canterbury Tales; Nora Corrigan8. ""Rounes to Rede"": Ludic Reading Games in the Alliterative Wheel of Fortune Poem Somer Soneday; Kimberly Bell9. Textual Games and Virtuality in Spanish Cancionero Poetry; Juan Escourido
Afterword: Medieval Ludens; Betsy McCormick