Introduction: Setting Up the Board

Patterson, Serina

doi:10.1057/9781137497529_1

Cited by 13 publications

(2 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…21 Parlett (1999) 1-2; Juul (2005) 29 22 Cf. Huizinga (1948) 28-45, who discusses many other languages from several language families; Parlett (1999) 1; Juul (2005) 29; Patterson (2015) 5. The same rule also holds true for other Romance languages, such as the Portuguese jogo and jogar and the Rumanian joc and a juca.…”

Section: This Dissertation Explores the Roles Board Games And Games Of Chance Play Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Not just fun and games : exploring ludic elements in Greek and Latin literature

Dobbs¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This dissertation explores how Greek and Roman authors use board games and games of chance to answer complex questions about humanity and the relation of the self to the cosmos. I isolate literary topoi rooted in gaming imagery and survey them across a broad diachronic and generic expanse to reveal the application of ludic themes as an important conceptual tool. Specifically, I demonstrate how authors employ gaming imagery to engage in ongoing discussions about the nature of the universe and human behavior; I trace these ludic themes in passages often overlooked as mere metaphor and shape them into an analytical framework that spans major genres from the 8th century BCE to the early 1st century CE.

show abstract

Section: This Dissertation Explores the Roles Board Games And Games Of Chance Play Inmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Patterson (2015) 6 13 Parlett (1999) 1 14Suits (1978) 184-191, quote from 190. The terms in brackets are what Suits terms the "elements of game-playing.…”

mentioning

confidence: 99%

Not just fun and games : exploring ludic elements in Greek and Latin literature

Dobbs¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile

De Souza

2024

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile: Rereading and Refashioning al-Andalus traces the evolving memory of a dominant al-Andalus in medieval Castilian and, later, modern Spanish literature. It presents a series of close readings of neomedievalist literary works that look back to the socioeconomic apogee of al-Andalus, the tenth-century Umayyad Caliphate of Cordoba, but were written centuries later, from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century. These works rewrite what has become known as the story of the siete infantes de Lara, although it is their Andalusi half-brother, Mudarra, who takes centre stage from the early modern period on. In its earliest form, it is a story of a weak, conflictual county of Castile, dependent socioeconomically and morally upon Andalusi intervention. Memories of Colonisation asks why Mudarra and the infantes continue to reappear in medieval chronicles, from the Estoria de España to lesser-known regional historiography, early modern ballads, comedias, and nineteenth-century Romantic poetry and prose. By examining how each of these texts remembers tenth-century Iberia’s fluid geographical and interracial boundaries and Castilian disempowerment, it explores how they support or challenge dominant contemporary discourses of collective identity, race, and nation; from the neogothic aspirations of thirteenth-century Castile to the antisemitism of fifteenth-century Toledo, expansion in the Mediterranean, the Islamophobia of the morisco expulsion, and the partisan manipulation of al-Andalus under nineteenth century liberalism. It also examines how each text exposes the task of reconstructing historical memory in the present and thereby challenges the notion of a stable, incontestable past for Castile and Spain.

show abstract

Copyright Page

De Souza

2024

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Introduction: Setting Up the Board

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

Not just fun and games : exploring ludic elements in Greek and Latin literature

Not just fun and games : exploring ludic elements in Greek and Latin literature

Memories of Colonisation in Medieval and Modern Castile

Copyright Page

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About