L’Echiquier de Nature

by Wilfrid Fauquet

Book cover: L’Echiquier de Nature

Extent: 142 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Recherches litteraires medievales

Series volume number: 20

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(May 2016)

ISBN: 9782812449529

Price: $40.00

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This work analyses an allegorical game of chess recounted in the Eschez d’Amours. The movements of pieces on the chessboard secretly evoke passages from the Roman de la Rose; they also indicate which of the three goddesses from the judgement of Paris to choose.

  • By (author) Wilfrid Fauquet