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game theory
manuscript studies
Middle English
MS Cotton Nero A.x
reader agency
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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- ISBN 9781501518546
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Jan 2025
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book innovatively combines traditional manuscript study with contemporary cultural game theory to show how the fourteenth-century Middle English romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight launches a multidimensional game with its late-fourteenth-century elite reader in its unique manuscript context, London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero A X/2. The textual and visual games of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Cotton Nero manuscript allow a fourteenth-century English Christian aristocracy to align courtly gaming with heavenly goals, thereby justifying elite amusements.
Julie Nelson Couch is Professor of English at Texas Tech University and has published on Middle English poetry, including romances, apocryphal verse, and miracle poems, on Middle English manuscript contexts, as well as on children as characters and readers. Kimberly K. Bell, Professor of English at Sam Houston State University, has published on Middle English manuscripts, examining their contents—including romances, saints’ lives, and chansons de geste—while paying special attention to genre, narrative structure, and gaming features.
