![]() ![]() ![]() One such was the scholastic idea of eutrapelia, virtuous leisure, invoked by fray Juan Bautista Capataz in his censor’s assessment of Cervantes’s Novelas ejemplares in 1612: Both saw there was a role for entertainment, but such entertainment had to be limited. ![]() Two ideas informed much discussion of leisure activities. Medieval and early modern fun-spoilers were unanimous in their condemnation of dicing and (later) cards, but less commonly, it seems to me, did they include backgammon in their sights.Ī King and lady playing a board game resembling backgammon, from the Luttrell Psalter (ca.1325-35), British Library MS Add. The Galway Museum displays a city ordinance of 1528 setting a fine of 20 shillings for the playing of ‘cards, dyce, tabulls, nor no other unlawfull gamys, by young men, and specialle by prentisys nor Irishmen’ ‘Tabulls’, ‘tables’, is backgammon.
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