Scan barcode
![Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages by Jenny Adams](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBMFdLM2c9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--0115011127be7a778cb4266fb36a6558df82e34c/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Power%20Play-%20The%20Literature%20and%20Politics%20of%20Chess%20in%20the%20Late%20Middle%20Ages.jpg)
252 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780812239447
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 12 September 2006
Description
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...
Community Reviews
Content Warnings
![Power Play: The Literature and Politics of Chess in the Late Middle Ages by Jenny Adams](https://558130.bdp32.group/rails/active_storage/representations/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBMFdLM2c9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--0115011127be7a778cb4266fb36a6558df82e34c/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVFJc0FXa0M5QUU9IiwiZXhwIjpudWxsLCJwdXIiOiJ2YXJpYXRpb24ifX0=--038335c90cf75c275ae4d36968ac417dc4a0a3e3/Power%20Play-%20The%20Literature%20and%20Politics%20of%20Chess%20in%20the%20Late%20Middle%20Ages.jpg)
252 pages • missing pub info (editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780812239447
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication date: 12 September 2006
Description
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...