Medieval Magicians as Entertainers: Magic as Demonic Illusion or Stagecraft

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents VII
3. List of Illustrations XI
4. Pleasure and Leisure from the Middle Ages to the early Nineteenth Century 1
5. Medieval Magicians as Entertainers: Magic as Demonic Illusion or Stagecraft 161
6. Hestaþing (Horse Meeting/s) in Medieval Icelandic Culture 189
7. The Transformation of the World through Pleasure and Performance in the Thousand and One Nights 203
8. Behüde mich vor vngerechtem gude. Were Goods Won in Game “Unjustified”? Medieval Gambling 225
9. Aldhelm’s Enigmata and the Commentaries from the Canterbury School: A Monastic Curriculum in Play 241
10. Understanding Monastic Recreations and Luxury within the Anglo-Saxon Patristic Tradition 267
11. Subjects of the Game: The Pleasures of Subjection in William IX’s “Ben vueill que sapchon li pluzor” 287
12. Peregrine Pleasures: The Sport of Falconry, Lovers, and Self-Identity in Medieval German Literature 333
13. Tourney, Joust, Foreis and Round Table: Tournament Forms in the Frauendienst of Ulrich von Liechtenstein 365
14. Drinking, Partying, and Drunkenness in Late Medieval German Verse Narratives and Jest Narratives 395
15. William Langland’s Attitude Toward Play, Leisure, and Pastime: A Realignment of Priorities in Post-Plague England 433
16. The Ambraser Hofämterspiel: Playing Cards as a Visual Source for Courtly Life during the Late Middle Ages 451
17. Gawain, Giants, and Tennis in the Fifteenth Century 473
18. “J’ai tiré si près / Que je touche au but”: Ludic Roots, Spiritual Play in Marguerite de Navarre’s L’Inquisiteur 495
19. Jeux Interdits: The Rationale and Limits of Clerical and Lay Efforts to Enjoin “Scurrilia Solatia” 517
20. Randomization in Paper: Shuffling as a Material Practice with Moral Implications in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern World 539
21. Calculated Losses: Molière, Regnard, and the Changing Comic Gamblers of Seventeenth-Century France 583
22. “His usuall Retyrement”: Henry Vaughan’s Life and Writing during the English Civil War 601
23. Jokes and the Eighteenth-Century Unconscious: Enlightening the Early-Modern European Id 623
24. Enjoying the Waters: Cross-Class Leisure and Pleasure at the Eighteenth Century British Spa 673
25. Nine Men’s Medievalisms: Conquests of the Longbow, Nine Men’s Morris, and the Impossibilities of a Half-Forgotten Game’s Ludic Past 695
26. Biographical Notes about the Contributors 735
27. Index 743