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Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age - Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Toys, Games, and Entertainment (Hardcover)
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Pleasure and Leisure in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age - Cultural-Historical Perspectives on Toys, Games, and Entertainment (Hardcover)
Series: Fundamentals of Medieval and Early Modern Culture
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Jan Huizinga and Roger Caillois have already taught us to realize
how important games and play have been for pre-modern civilization.
Recent research has begun to acknowledge the fundamental importance
of these aspects in cultural, religious, philosophical, and
literary terms. This volume expands on the traditional approach
still very much focused on the materiality of game (toys, cards,
dice, falcons, dolls, etc.) and acknowledges that game constituted
also a form of coming to terms with human existence in an unstable
and volatile world determined by universal randomness and fortune.
Whether considering blessings or horse fighting, falconry or card
games, playing with dice or dolls, we can gain a much deeper
understanding of medieval and early modern society when we consider
how people pursued pleasure and how they structured their leisure
time. The contributions examine a wide gamut of approaches to
pleasure, considering health issues, eroticism, tournaments,
playing music, reading and listening, drinking alcohol, gambling
and throwing dice. This large issue was also relevant, of course,
in non-Christian societies, and constitutes a critical concern both
for the past and the present because we are all homines ludentes.
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