Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: Chess in the Medieval World 1
4. Chapter 1. (Re )moving the King: Ideals of Civic Order in Jacobus de Cessolis's Liber de ludo scachorum 15
5. Chapter 2. Taxonomies of Desire in Les Echecs amoureux 57
6. Chapter 3. Exchequers and Balances: Anxieties of Exchange in Chaucerian Fictions 95
7. Chapter 4. "The Kynge Must Be Thus Maad": Playing with Power in Fifteenth-Century England 122
8. Epilogue 156
9. Notes 165
10. Bibliography 225
11. Index 245
12. Acknowledgments 251