| Chess One 2006-08-03, 2:52 am |
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> "Chess One" <innes8@verizon.net> wrote:
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> Interesting, Phil. Although I have studies the art & science of "'nardo"
> for many decades, I don't recall mention of his chessmanship. Your
> knowledge of chess history is apparently far greater than mine.
Most of this material is scarfed from Eales, who sometimes glosses, but
mentions much - but a lot of chess anecdotes relate to the /older/ form of
the game, the one of ritual manners which were more important in another
age, and from Romance literature [here Romance simply means the opposite of
Novel, and look back rather than to the new], some of it surprisingly old,
eg /Huon of Bordeaux/ written in French about 1230, where a female Arab
chess champion has an adventure, and escapes with the aid of the fairy King
Auberon, ancestor of Shakespeare's Oberon in MND. Shakespeare used [the new]
chess agian in Tempest with Miranda and Ferdinand.
But this Romance literature was read all over Europe, especially in the
North, but by Protestants, Jews and Catholics alike with a fair salting of
neo-Platonists, by Kings and Commoners, and the appeal might have been that
it was played equally [and by all accounts with equal success] by both
sexes. Albrecht of Bavaria and Anne of Austria are figured playing the [new]
game on a title page illustration by Muelich 1552.
As Yalom writes, the game remains [for pre-Elizabethan Europe] a positive
symbol of conjugal interaction.
So many sources are of the old game, whereas the new game sponsored stronger
attention to playing itself, as introduced and disseminiated by Lucena,
Damiano, Greco
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> The complete entry in the OED2 on CD-ROM, v. 1.14, © OUP, 1994, is:
>
> 'sportulary, a. Obs.1
> [f. L. sportula little basket, dole, gift, dim. of sporta sport n.2]
> Supported by, dependent or subsisting on, the doles or gifts of patrons.
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> 1649 Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. vii. (1650) 231 Hereupon it is, that these
> sportulary preachers are faine to sooth up their many maisters.
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> One of the nice things about obsolete words is the brevity of the entries.
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> I love languages. Words are the way we communicate, math is the language
> of
> sciences.
For who else built the stubborn structure of language
And rose against a silent melancholy and a dumb despair?
Come Caedmon, come Cynewulf!
So I telleth thee, ere that ye further wende.
To finish with Chaucer, 1369, Book of the Duchess:
At the ches with me she [Fortune] gan to pleye;
With hir false draughts [oieces] dyvers
She staal on me, and took my fers.
And whan I saw my fers awaye,
Allas! I kouthe no lenger playe.
Cordially, Phil
ps: you probable found references to your own name, which is both noun and
verb in the North of England; a tinker, also to join or to mend.
in fact CRAME is a specific to Lancashire, to bend. It is very unusual stem~
in English, though Dekker cites a game called Crambo. A KRAIM is a booth at
a fair [North] and the person attending it a CREAMER, tho' CRYMOSIN means
crimson. Unknown if any of these mainly northern words are still extant.
They sound like late A. Norman and C14th earliest, with any respectable
connection with A. Sax. Oldest ref I can find for the stem~ [in this case
meaning, to shout] is Morte Arthure, MS Linc F. 70 [at least it hs a Knight
in it, and wordez!]
With knyghttly contenaunce sir Clegis hymselfene
Kryes to the companye, and carpes thees wordez.
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