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Author : Lake Allen
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Total Pages : 614 pages
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Download or read book On the Game of Chess in Europe During the Thirteenth Century written by Lake Allen and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 600 pages
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Total Pages : 598 pages
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Author : Thomas Campbell
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Total Pages : 598 pages
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Download or read book New Monthly Magazine, and Universal Register written by Thomas Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The New Monthly Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Princeton University. Library
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Total Pages : 640 pages
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Download or read book Special collections written by Princeton University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Monthly Repertory of English Literature, ... Or an Impartial Criticism of All the Books Relative to Literature, Arts, Sciences Etc. Forming a Valuable Selection from the ... English Reviews and Magazines. Galignani's Magazine and Paris Monthly Review, (etc.) Paris 1823-25 written by and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Harold James Ruthven Murray
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Total Pages : 966 pages
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Download or read book A History of Chess written by Harold James Ruthven Murray and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jenny Adams
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812201043
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Power Play written by Jenny Adams and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste, and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries also played chess, which often symbolized romantic attraction or sexual consummation. In Power Play, Jenny Adams looks to medieval literary representations to ask what they can tell us both about the ways the game changed as it was naturalized in the West and about the society these changes reflected. In its Western form, chess featured a queen rather than a counselor, a judge or bishop rather than an elephant, a knight rather than a horse; in some manifestations, even the pawns were differentiated into artisans, farmers, and tradespeople with discrete identities. Power Play is the first book to ask why chess became so popular so quickly, why its pieces were altered, and what the consequences of these changes were. More than pleasure was at stake, Adams contends. As allegorists and political theorists connected the moves of the pieces to their real-life counterparts, chess took on important symbolic power. For these writers and others, the game provided a means to figure both human interactions and institutions, to envision a civic order not necessarily dominated by a king, and to imagine a society whose members acted in concert, bound together by contractual and economic ties. The pieces on the chessboard were more than subjects; they were individuals, playing by the rules.
Author : Paul R. Wonning
Publisher : Mossy Feet Books
ISBN 13 : 131092421X
Total Pages : 13 pages
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Download or read book A Short History of the Game Of Chess written by Paul R. Wonning and published by Mossy Feet Books. This book was released on with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chess has been a favored game for almost fifteen hundred years of human history. From its rise in India, the history of chess has been one of continual growth. A Short History of the Game Of Chess recounts a brief history of this much loved game. chess, history
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Download or read book Notes and Queries: A Medium of Inter-Communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 368 pages
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Download or read book The Invention of Printing in China and Its Spread Westward written by Thomas Francis Carter and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies the history of printing in China from the invention of paper, through block printing, through paper's journey to Europe, to printing with movable type.
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Download or read book Notes and Queries written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Florian Vauleon
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472126199
Total Pages : 156 pages
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Download or read book Reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the Prism of Chess written by Florian Vauleon and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-11-25 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over a period of forty years, Rousseau combined his devotion to writing with his enthusiasm for chess, and these two passions necessarily intertwined. Rousseau was able to transfer his power of concentration and the strict dialectics of his literary writings to his chess strategy. If Rousseau’s analytical skills influenced his attitude toward the game, then the game of chess inspired his logic and affected his discourse. Interpreted as a form of rationality, as a conceptual paradigm, the rules and strategies of chess accurately describe Rousseau’s ideas for social management, political power, and organization. Reading Jean-Jacques Rousseau through the Prism of Chess shows that Rousseau’s political theory, though allegedly inspired by Nature, found a perfect model in a game created by mankind; chess thus became a reference for his philosophical discourse and practice as well as a method to systematize Nature and organize society.
Author : Christopher de Hamel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525559426
Total Pages : 589 pages
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Download or read book The Manuscripts Club written by Christopher de Hamel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a thousand years of history The illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages are among the greatest works of European art and literature. We are dazzled by them and recognize their crucial role in the transmission of knowledge. However, we generally think much less about the countless men and women who made, collected and preserved them through the centuries, and to whom they owe their existence. This entrancing book describes some of the extraordinary people who have spent their lives among illuminated manuscripts over the last thousand years: a monk in Normandy, a prince of France, a Florentine bookseller, an English antiquary, a rabbi from central Europe, a French priest, a Keeper at the British Museum, a Greek forger, a German polymath, a British connoisseur and the woman who created the most spectacular library in America—all of them members of what Christopher de Hamel calls the Manuscripts Club. This exhilarating fraternity, and the fellow enthusiasts who come with it, throw new light on how manuscripts have survived and been used by very different kinds of people in many different circumstances. Christopher de Hamel’s unexpected connections and discoveries reveal a passion that crosses the boundaries of time. We understand the manuscripts themselves better by knowing who their keepers and companions have been. In 1850 (or thereabouts) John Ruskin bought his first manuscript “at a bookseller’s in a back alley.” This was his reaction: “The new worlds which every leaf of this book opened to me, and the joy I had in counting their letters and unravelling their arabesques as if they had all been of beaten gold—as many of them were—cannot be told.” The members of de Hamel’s club share many such wonders, which he brings to us with scholarship, style and a lifetime’s experience.
Author : James Robinson
Publisher : British Museum Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780714150239
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (52 download)
Download or read book The Lewis Chessmen written by James Robinson and published by British Museum Publications Limited. This book was released on 2004 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Lewis chessmen were found hidden on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland, in the early nineteenth century. Probably made in Norway around AD 1150-1200, they consist of elaborately worked walrus ivory in the forms of seated kings and queens, mitred bishops, knights on their mounts, standing warders and pawns. This book takes a look at the many theories surrounding the ownership of the pieces, why they were hidden and how exactly they were discovered, and places them in the wider context of the ancient game of chess and secular culture of the Middle Ages.
