Playing it by the book : printed and manuscript book games in early modern Europe / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba and Mara R. Wade (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kiliańczyk-Zięba, Justyna, editor.

Wade, Mara R., editor.

Karr Schmidt, Suzanne, contributor.

Herzog August Bibliothek, publisher.

Series:

Wolfenbütteler Forschungen ; Bd. 181.

Wolfenbütteler Forschungen, 0724-9594 ; 181

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Illustrated books--History--15th and 16th centuries.

Illustrated books.

Illustrated books--History--17th century.

Games--Europe--History.

Games.

Puzzles--History.

Puzzles.

Emblem books, European--History.

Emblem books, European.

Fortune-telling--Europe--History.

Fortune-telling.

Physical Description:

415 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Distribution:

Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag in Kommission

Place of Publication:

Wolfenbüttel : Herzog August Bibliothek, 2026.

Contents:

Playing it by the book: preface / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba and Mara R. Wade

Playing it by the book: the early modern world at play in print: introduction / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba and Mara R. Wade

Seventeenth-century book worlds, textual universes, and the ethics of games: Duke August the Younger's Das Schach-oder Koenig-Spiel (1616) / Matthias Roick

Puzzle books from the collections of Jan Ponętowski and Ferdinand II, Duke of Austria / Magdalena Herman

Game kits: reproducing interactive blockbooks and movable incunables / Suzanne Karr Schmidt

The emblematic book game: Georg Philipp Harsdörffer's Stechbüchlein (1654) / Mara R. Wade

The lottery in context: George Wither's A collection of emblemes (1635) and book games / Natália Pikli

Ludic praise in an emblematic garden for Christina of Sweden: Schering Rosenhane's Hortus regius / Simon McKeown

Playing with words and images: a book of fortune telling (1532) in Renaissance Poland / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba

At the crossroads of early modern civility and popular culture: the Hungarian book of the wheel of fortune / Gábor Förköli

Katarina Zrinska's Sibyl: a fortune-telling book from seventeenth-century Croatia / Milan Pelc

Dangerous games in dangerous books?: manuscript manuals for learning and codifying social interactions (ca. 1350-1450) / Vanina Kopp

Italian games in sixteenth-century France between print and oral culture / Shanti Graheli

Game books and collections of novellas: different genres, similar uses / Enrica Zanin

How to tickle the reader's curiosity: Étienne Tabourot's Les bigarrures / Katell Lavéant

The game of five nations: educational galanterie in seventeenth-century France / Valerio Zanetti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783447125222

3447125225

OCLC:

1597440313

Publisher Number:

9783447125222