Cultures of Play/Cultures at Play in Medieval Italy
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Italians and Italianists at Kalamazoo
Organizer Name
Akash Kumar
Organizer Affiliation
Columbia Univ.
Presider Name
Karina Feliciano Attar
Presider Affiliation
Queens College, CUNY
Paper Title 1
The Great Equalizers: Death and Humor during the Black Death of the Fourteenth Century
Presenter 1 Name
Ariana Ellis
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Centre for Medieval Studies, Univ. of Toronto
Paper Title 2
Fama, Authorità, Amicizia: Volleying for Status and Strategic Naming in the Italian Medieval Tenzone
Presenter 2 Name
Savannah Cooper-Ramsey
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Columbia Univ.
Paper Title 3
Doubling the Chessboard: Chess, Math, Culture from the Early Italian Lyric to Dante
Presenter 3 Name
Akash Kumar
Start Date
14-5-2016 10:00 AM
Session Location
Fetzer 2030
Description
The session "Cultures of Play/Cultures at Play in Medieval Italy" examines games and the cultural, social, and legal issues that surround them in medieval Italy. From literary representations of games like chess that move from East to West, to religious and legal prohibitions against gambling across cultures, game-playing offers a vital historicizing perspective on the culture of medieval Italy.
Cultures of Play/Cultures at Play in Medieval Italy
Fetzer 2030
The session "Cultures of Play/Cultures at Play in Medieval Italy" examines games and the cultural, social, and legal issues that surround them in medieval Italy. From literary representations of games like chess that move from East to West, to religious and legal prohibitions against gambling across cultures, game-playing offers a vital historicizing perspective on the culture of medieval Italy.