{"product_id":"gaming-the-medieval-english-text-julie-nelson-couch-9781501518546","title":"Gaming the Medieval English Text: \"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight\" and the Cotton Nero a X\/2 Manuscript","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book innovatively combines medieval manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the Middle English romance \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e launches a multidimensional game with its late-fourteenth-century elite reader. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe reading games within \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e extend to the layout of the poem as found in its one extant manuscript, London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero A X\/2. This study offers a more comprehensive examination of games and gaming in \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e and the manuscript as a whole, its four poems and its illustrations, than has been published to date. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReading, before printed editions, was an activity that involved interacting with the visual layout of the text on the page. The authors find that a medieval reader's ludic interaction with this singular medieval codex could amuse but also serve as a means to serious ends, specifically redemptive knowledge. Couch and Bell conclude that the textual and visual games of \u003cem\u003eSir Gawain and the Green Knight\u003c\/em\u003e and the Cotton Nero manuscript allow a fourteenth-century English Christian aristocracy to align courtly gaming with heavenly goals, thereby justifying elite amusements.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Julie Nelson Couch, Kimberly K. Bell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501518542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501518546\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Medieval Institute Publications\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/16\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 261\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Julie Nelson Couch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46795377344767,"sku":"9781501518546","price":102.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_84d72226-cb70-415e-bbc1-3d2af30b942b.jpg?v=1744947415","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/gaming-the-medieval-english-text-julie-nelson-couch-9781501518546","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}