Playthings in Early Modernity: Party Games, Word Games, Mind Games

Introduction : playing the field / Allison Levy — Performing pictures : parlor games and visual engagement in Ascanio de’ Mori’s Giuoco piacevole / Kelli Wood — Mixt and matched : dance games in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe / Emily F. Winerock — Ludic intermingling/ludic discrimination : women’s card playing and visual proscriptions in early modern Europe / Antonella Fenech Kroke — Leonardo da Vinci, parody, and pictorial magic / Chriscinda Henry — Letter games : Machiavelli and Guicciardini in carnivalesque correspondence / Sergius Kodera — The rules of passion and pastime : the game of lurch in a late Renaissance poem / Manfred Zollinger — Sportes and pastimes, done by number : mathematical games in early modern England / Jessica Marie Otis — Wheels of fortune : the early modern lottery book as object and game / Jessen Kelly — Virtuous vices : Giuseppe Maria Mitelli’s gambling prints and the social mapping of leisure and gender in post-tridentine Bologna / Patricia Rocco — Trading and trick-taking in the Dutch republic : Pasquin’s wind cards and the South Sea bubble / Joyce Goggin — The problem of excessive play : Renaissance strategies of ludic governmentality / Andreas Hermann Fischer — Imaginary cartographies and commercial commodities : playing cards and geography in early modern England / Serina Patterson — Land of elusion : Portuguese perceptions and the matter of play and gaming in Vijayanagara / Elke Rogersdotter — Visual frames and breaking the rules of the reconquista : chess and Alfonso X, El Sabio’s Libro de ajedrez, dados, y tablas / Nhora Lucøa Serrano — The prisoners’ dilemma : strategies and ruses in the inquisitorial jails of early modern Cuenca / Patrick J. O’Banion