Book of the games: chess, dices and tables: ordering of tafurerías

The concepts of "brain" , "fortune" and "sensibly" , related respectively to each game (chess, dices and tables) they constitute the referring theoretician whom Libro of the games frames all the. As ideas appellants in the work Alfonso X emphasize the intellectual and cultured character of the game, that must practice with balance and moderation to expand the virtues of the intellectual practice.

With a beautiful introductory prologue, to the purest alfonsí style, the author justifies the invention of the different games as search from the happiness and the benefit on the part of the men, at the same time as she foments the low instincts, as the greed, that are source of all evil.

The following work of the volume, Ordering of tahurerías, that works as counterpoint and complement of the previous one, is a text of framed legal and normative character within smaller legal works of the author, by its specificity. It picks up the concrete norms that must regulate the operation of tafurerías and its main interest, not only like legal document, is that it approaches the present reader to the daily life of these medieval houses of game, the customs of those who frequented and the physical punishments and fines that were followed of certain tricks, criminal ruses and other conducts.

Details:

• Author: Alfonso X , Rey de Castilla y Raúl Orellana Calderón
• ISBN: 978-84-96452-41-1
• EAN-13: 9788496452411
• Format: 14 x 22 cm.
• Binding: clothbound
• Pages: 410
• Number edition: 1ª
• Date edition: 12/2007
• Language: Spanish