The Game of the Chesse
From Liber de moribus hominum et officiis nobilium sive super ludo scacchorum ('Book of the customs of men and the duties of nobles or the Book of Chess'), written by an Italian Dominican monk Jacobus de Cessolis circa 1300. The popular work was translated into many other languages (first printed edition at Utrecht in 1473) and was the basis for William Caxton's The Game and Playe of the Chesse (1474), one of the first books printed in English. This is a facsimile reprint of the second edition in English, with woodcuts. Different chess pieces were used as metaphors for different classes of people, and human duties were derived from the rules…
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Weitere Autoren: De Cessolis, Jacobus
- ISBN: 978-1-4357-4943-6
- EAN: 9781435749436
- Produktnummer: 35718381
- Verlag: Lulu.com
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 172 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D0.9 cm 259 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 259
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