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Linde M. Brocato
\n(University of Memphis<\/em>)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u201c ‘The Most Dangerous Game’:
\nThe Libro de los juegos<\/em>, the Royal Library, and Aristocratic (Non-)Leisure”<\/h2>\n

Abstract of Response
\nTo be presented at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies
\n(Kalamazoo, 2018)<\/h3>\n

Session on
\n\u201cAlfonso X’s Libro de los juegos<\/em>: Big Results from Small Data\u201d<\/h4>\n

Sponsored by the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence
\n<\/strong>Organized by Linde M. Brocato
\n2018 Congress Program<\/a><\/h4>\n

[Published on 7 February 2018<\/em>]<\/p>\n

As noted in the Call for Papers<\/a>, the Libro de los juegos<\/em> compiled by Alfonso X of Castile (1221\u20131284) \u201cis a book that lends itself to interdisciplinary conversation, and to conversations that trace its contents and its effects over time, as part of a particular corpus and part of a concrete library.\u201d It is in fact the late 13th-century starting place in a series of books dedicated to aristocratic leisure by members of the Castilian royal house of Burgundy, and is followed by the Libro de la ca\u00e7a de las aves<\/em> (circa 1320) by his nephew, Juan Manuel (1282\u20131348). In his turn, Alfonso XI (1311\u20131350), great-grandson of Alfonso X, at the very least completed the Libro de la monter\u00eda<\/em> in the first half of the 14th century, by adding Book 3 to sections possibly begun by Alfonso X himself, who, Juan Manuel recounts, composed a treatise \u201cdel benar,\u201d precisely the hunting of larger game that Alfonso XI maps in his contribution.<\/p>\n

In this paper, I will trace the history of the texts and the manuscripts, to show the powerful intellectual presence of the royal library containing Alfonso X\u2019s works, and then those of his successors. I will then analyze how Alfonso X\u2019s Libro de los juegos<\/em> provided a model not just for discussions of aristocratic leisure, but, as shown in work by Sonja Musser (2007<\/a>) and Linde M. Brocato (2014<\/a>), for deeply encoded political communication. Finally, I will suggest that the two roughly contemporary texts of Juan Manuel, implacable enemy of his king, and Alfonso XI are war by other means, a tacit dimension of the hostilities between the two elites \u2014 hence my invocation of Richard Connell\u2019s 1924 short story<\/a>, \u201cThe Most Dangerous Game\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Linde M. Brocato (University of Memphis) \u201c ‘The Most Dangerous Game’: The Libro de los juegos, the Royal Library, and Aristocratic (Non-)Leisure” Abstract of Response To be presented at the 53rd International Congress on Medieval Studies (Kalamazoo, 2018) Session on \u201cAlfonso X’s Libro de los juegos: Big Results from Small Data\u201d Sponsored by the Research […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":1023,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10543"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10543"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14468,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10543\/revisions\/14468"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/manuscriptevidence.org\/wpme\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}