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‎Games‎

‎Games and Visual Culture in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 356 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:62 b/w, 25 col., 2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503588728.‎

‎Summary During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, games were not an idle pastime, but were in fact important tools for exploring, transmitting, enhancing, subverting, and challenging social practices and their rules. Their study, through both visual and material sources, offers a unique insight into medieval and early modern gaming culture, shedding light not only on why, where, when, with whom and in what conditions and circumstances people played games, but also on the variety of interpretations that they had of games and play. Representations of games, and of artefacts associated with games, also often served to communicate complex ideas on topics that ranged from war to love, and from politics to theology. This volume offers a particular focus onto the type of games that required little or no physical exertion and that, consequently, all people could enjoy, regardless of age, gender, status, occupation, or religion. The representations and artefacts discussed here by contributors, who come from varied disciplines including history, literary studies, art history, and archaeology, cover a wide geographical and chronological range, from Spain to Scandinavia to the Ottoman Turkey and from the early medieval period to the seventeenth century and beyond. Far from offering the 'last word' on the subject, it is hoped that this volume will encourage further studies. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations Introduction - VANINA KOPP AND ELIZABETH LAPINA Rhetoric and Reality in the Visual Culture of Medieval Celtic Board Games: Literary and Archaeological Evidence Combined - KATHERINE FORSYTH AND MARK A. HALL 'Turne Over the Leef': Games and Interpretation on Misericords - PAUL HARDWICK Gambling Miners - LENA ASRIH AND JENNIFER GARNER Chess and Cultural Crossings in Boccaccio - AKASH KUMAR Visualizing Chess and Love in Les Esch z d'Amours - DANIEL E. O'SULLIVAN Game as a Sign of Social Status: Backgammon in the Ottoman Literature and Visual Culture - T L N DE?IRMENCI Chess of the Gnostics: The Sufi Version of Snakes and Ladders in Turkey and India - ?RVIN CEMIL SCHICK Playthings: Ivory on Ivory - ELINA GERTSMAN The Playing Eye: On the Transfer of Game-related Knowledge through Miniatures in Alfonso X's Book of Games (1283/84) - MICHAEL A. CONRAD Children's Toys in Italy, 1350-1550 - ANNEMARIEKE WILLEMSEN The Printed Book and the Visual Culture of Chess in the Late Middle Ages: William Caxton's 1483 Edition of The Game and Playe of Chess - LOUISE FANG Graffiti as Gaming: Vikings at Play in the Orkney Islands - JULIE MELL Scratching the Surface: Graffiti Games in the Byzantine Empire - WALTER CRIST‎

‎La Théorie des Jeux de Hasard" ou, analyse du Krabs, du Passe-dix, de la Roulette, du Trente & Quarante, du Pharaon, du Biribi & du Lotto. - [GAMES OF CHANCE]‎

‎[No place], 1788. 8vo. Bound in a recent full blue paper binding w. paper title-label to front board. Uncut. A bit of minor soiling to title-page, otherwise nice and clean. 51 pp.‎

‎The scarce first edition of this interesting book on games of chance and the theory of probability connected thereto. Huyn's profound study of the possible series and combinations within the mentioned games of cards, roulette, lotto, and various other chance- or hazard-games, is based on mathematical theories of statistics. Among other things Huyn, in the present work, shows that it is impossible to win in uneven games and that all attempts to speculate in these are wrong and prove to be false. As such, ""La Théorie de hazard"" provides us with an important early contribution to the analysis of chance games and a valuable work of very practical probability theory. The present work stands at the midst of a new scientific approach to games of hazard, which also directly influenced the art and manners of trick-games and tricksters. Apart from the mathematical approach to the subject, Huyn also thoroughly explains the rules of the games and even has observations on the moral aspect of them.The work is very rare and is only found in few copies in libraries world-wide, e.g. only two copies on OCLC. Another edition of the book appeared in 1803, printed in Amsterdam.‎

‎Games of the XXII Olympiad. Moscow 1980. Official report of the organizing comm‎

‎Games of the XXII Olympiad. Moscow 1980. Official report of the organizing committee of the games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980. Volume 1 2 3. In English (ask us if in doubt)/Games of the XXII Olympiad. Moscow 1980. Official report of the organising committee of the games of the XXII Olympiad Moscow 1980. Volume 1 2 3. Short description: In English (ask us if in doubt).Games of the XXII Olympics. Moscow 1980. Official Report of the Organizing Committee of the Games of the XXII Olympics Moscow 1980. Volumes 1 2 3. In English (Volume 1 2 3) and French (Volume 3). Moscow. Physical Culture and Sports. Fizkoultuora I Sport. Fizcultura I Sport. Fizkultura I Sport. 1981. 240 + 536 + 656 p. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalbec07fe67b0d5f6c6‎

‎The Complete Results of the Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964 in Four Volu‎

‎The Complete Results of the Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964 in Four Volumes. Volumes 3 and 4. Resultats des Jeux de la XVIII Olympiade Tokyo 1964. (Complete results of the Games of the 18th Olympiad Tokyo 1964 in four volumes. Volumes 3 and 4). In English (ask us if in doubt)/The Complete Results of the Games of the XVIII Olympiad Tokyo 1964 in Four Volumes. Volumes 3 and 4. Resultats des Jeux de la XVIII Olympiade Tokyo 1964. (Polnye rezultaty Igr 18-y Olimpiady v Tokio 1964 v chetyrekh tomakh. Toma 3 i 4). Short description: In English (ask us if in doubt).In English. Tokyo Summer Olympics 1964. Full Results. The Complete Results of the Games of the XVIII Olympic Tokyo in Four Volumes are published by the Olympic Organizing Committee. These results were calculated and compiled by IBM. We have thousands of titles and often several copies of each title may be available. Please feel free to contact us for a detailed description of the copies available. SKUalb6838ee163424786f‎

‎Improve Communication 50 Games and Experiments 20‎

‎505 Games 2001 2001. Michel Barlow Improve Communication - 50 Games and Experiments 2001 The description of this item has been automatically translated. If you have any questions please feel free to contact us. ) paperback 184 pages GOOD CONDITION; complete and solid without tears clean interior few creases on the cover; just write a name / first name in pen on the cover page. Communication is not a school exercise but for everyone a problem of every day or every minute: in family in the context of his professional or associative life of his leisure. Who could argue that they don't need to improve the way they communicate with others? Rather than proposing a theoretical approach this book invites the reader to experience and analyze experimental situations which make him observe under a magnifying glass and define for himself the mechanisms of communication. To often have a smiling or even funny character these 50 games and experiences nonetheless constitute a precise and effective training route. After the detailed presentation and analysis of each experience means are given to the reader to formulate the principles implemented and apply them to other situations; some bibliographical references and the popular presentation of research work on the subject complete the information. High school or college teachers continuing education or leisure leaders will find here suitable and original tools to serve their objectives. Authors biography. Michel Barlow professor of letters and animator of continuing education taught for twelve years the techniques of expression and communication in an IUT of the University Claude Bernard - Lyon I. He is the author of about thirty '' educational works in particular: Group work of pupils (Armand Colin); The teaching profession (Anthropos); The educational group a political reality (Social Chronicle); Formulate and evaluate your training objectives (Social Chronicle). for France also possible sending at home (in colissimo by the Post office even in letter followed for thin books but it is much more expensive). ) paperback 184 pages GOOD CONDITION; complete and solid without tears clean interior few creases on the cover; just write a name / first name in pen on the cover page To often have a smiling or even funny character these 50 games and experiences nonetheless constitute a precise and effective training route. After the detailed presentation and analysis of each experience means are given to the reader to formulate the principles implemented and apply them to other situations; some bibliographical references and the popular presentation of research work on the subject complete the information. High school or college teachers continuing education or leisure leaders will find here suitable and original tools to serve their objectives. Authors bio‎

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