Playing it by the book: printed and manuscript book games in early modern Europe

Contents

Preface. Playing it by the book / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba and Mara R. Wade -- Introduction. Playing it by the book : the early modern world at play in print / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba and Mara R. Wade -- Game books in the Library -- Seventeenth-century book worlds, textual universes, and the ethics of games : Duke August the Younger's Das Schach-oder Koenig-Spiel (1616) / Matthias Roick -- The material world : books as games -- Puzzle books from the collections of Jan Ponętowski and Ferdinand II, Duke of Austria / Magdalena Herman -- Game kits : reproducing interactive blockbooks and movable incunables / Suzanne Karr Schmidt -- Emblematic sociability -- The emblematic book game : Georg Philipp Harsdörffer's Stechbüchlein (1654) / Mara R. Wade -- The lottery in context : George Wither's A collection of emblemes (1635) and book games / Natália Pikli -- Ludic praise in an emblematic garden for Christina of Sweden : Schering Rosenhane's Hortus regius / Simon McKeown -- Books of fortune telling -- Playing with words and images : a book of fortune telling (1532) in Renaissance Poland / Justyna Kiliańczyk-Zięba -- At the crossroads of early modern civility and popular culture : the Hungarian book of the wheel of fortune / Gábor Förköli -- Katarina Zrinska's Sibyl : a fortune-telling book from seventeenth-century Croatia / Milan Pelc -- Printed and manuscript games in France and Italy -- Dangerous games in dangerous books? : manuscript manuals for learning and codifying social interactions (ca. 1350-1450) / Vanina Kopp -- Italian games in sixteenth-century France between print and oral culture / Shanti Graheli -- Game books and collections of novellas : different genres, similar uses / Enrica Zanin -- How to tickle the reader's curiosity : Étienne Tabourot's Les bigarrures / Katell Lavéant -- The game of five nations : educational galanterie in seventeenth-century France / Valerio Zanetti.