The geographical dictionary: ancient and early medieval India

1993 ◽  
Vol 30 (06) ◽  
pp. 30-2989-30-2989
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval India

Paolino da Venezia, Tractatus de Ludo Scachorum. A cura di Roberto Pesce. Collana Medioevo e Rinascimento, Testi. Venice: Centro di Studi Medioevali e Rinascimentali “E. A. Cicogna”, 2018, 179 pp., 51 b/w. ill.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 527-528
Author(s):  
Albrecht Classen
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Alfonso X ◽  
Modern Age ◽  
Recent Scholarship ◽  
Medieval India ◽  
Central Form ◽  
The Middle Ages

Recent scholarship has increasingly paid more attention to the game of chess as a central form of entertainment combined with a strong didactic component. Chess has a very long history, probably dating back to early medieval India, and was passed on to the Arabs and from them to the Europeans. Both kings such as Alfonso X el Sabio and theologians such as the Dominican Jacopo da Cessole were deeply involved in reflecting on this game and explaining it to their audiences, as is well documented in the volume Chess in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age, ed. Daniel E. O’Sullivan (2012). Shortly after 1321, the Venetian Paolino da Venezia, papal penitentiary and apostolic nuncio, composed his own treatise on chess, his Tractatus de Ludo Scachorum, which Roberto Pesce here introduces, edits, and translates into modern Italian in an exemplary fashion.

Reflections on Recent Perceptions of Early Medieval India

1993 ◽  
Vol 21 (12) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Krishna Mohan Shrimali
Keyword(s):  
Early Medieval ◽  
Medieval India
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