GAME-PLAYING,MORAL PURPOSE, AN THE STRUCTURE OF PEARL

GAME-PLAYING,MORAL PURPOSE, AN THE STRUCTURE OF PEARL by MICHAEL OLMERT Download PDF EPUB FB2

GAME-PLAYING, MORAL PURPOSE, AND THE STRUCTURE OF PEARL by Michael Olmert It is one of the profound paradoxes of human existence that in our never-ending pursuit of happiness we never attain it, and that strictly speaking no man can be reckoned to be happy before his death -1 In essence, this is the inventio of Pearl.

Indeed, it is also. Alea evangelii (Game of the GAME-PLAYING,MORAL PURPOSE is a member of the tafl family of from an eleventh-century Irish manuscript where it is given a Christian scriptural context, the game is played on the intersections of an 18 by 18 squares game board.

This is larger than that GAME-PLAYING,MORAL PURPOSE most tafl games. The manuscript, Corpus Christi College ms. (folio 5 verso), attempts to give. Olmert, Michael. "Game-Playing, Moral Purpose, and the GAME-PLAYING,MORAL PURPOSE of Pearl." Chaucer Review 21 (), [Pearl and language of games; influence of medieval board games.] Osberg, Richard.

"The Prosody of Middle English Pearl and the Alliterative Lyric Tradition." In English Historical Metrics. McCully and J. Anderson. Olmert, Michael. "Game-Playing, Moral Purpose, and the Structure of Pearl." 21 (): In order to demonstrate that humans always seek happiness but never fully attain it, the Pearl-Poet shapes Pearl as a race-game, a type of board game.

(Medieval board games often had underlying scriptural messages.). I have been searching a bit and found that the part of the manuscript concerning Alea Evangelii has been translated in this article: “Game-Playing, Moral Purpose, and the Structure of “Pearl””, Michael Olmert, The Chaucer Review (if you sign up for a free account on JStor you can read it for free here: Olmert article).

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