Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

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1. Record Number: 44746
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Title : Games and Entertainment: (b) Skallagrim’s Rough Play

Source: The Viking Age: A Reader. Edited by Angus A. Somerville and R. Andrew McDonald . University of Toronto Press, 2020. Pages 344 - 345.
Year of Publication: 2020.

2. Record Number: 4976
Author(s): Rowland, Beryl.
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Title : Chaucer's "Duchess" and Chess [The author searches for meaning in the material referring to chess in the "Book of the Duchess;" she argues that Chaucer used the twelve "ferses" to refer to the signs of the zodiac].

Source: Florilegium , 16., ( 1999): Pages 41 - 59.
Year of Publication: 1999.

3. Record Number: 30
Author(s): Orme, Nicholas
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Title : Culture of Children in Medieval England

Source: Past and Present (Full Text via JSTOR) 148 (Aug. 1995): 48-89. Link Info
Year of Publication: 1995.

4. Record Number: 11822
Author(s): Rudat, Wolfgang E. H.
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Title : Reading Chaucer's Earnest Games: Folk-Mode or Literary Sophistication? [There is no strict difference between the categories of "ernest" (serious, moral) and "game" (light, entertaining) in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The Merchant's Tale, a bawdy fabliau about an unfaithful wife and impotent husband, is an example of an "ernest game," a humorous form of story telling that has its roots in folklore and the oral tradition. Title note supplied by Feminae.].

Source: English Language Notes , 29., 2 (December 1991): Pages 16 - 20.
Year of Publication: 1991.

5. Record Number: 28812
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Title : A Game of Backgammon

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6. Record Number: 31120
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Title : Chess Piece of a Queen

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7. Record Number: 31850
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Title : The Popess, from the Visconti-Sforza Tarot

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8. Record Number: 36267
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Title : Muslim women playing chess

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