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First Wednesday: Knight to Queen: Chess, Courtly Life, and the Game of Love in the Middle Ages
April 3, 2013 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Imported from the Arabs and Persians in the ninth century, chess became a status symbol, an allegory of battle, and a metaphor for love. Dartmouth professor Jane Carroll examines the medieval art of flirting, the power plays of love, and the skill of negotiation as expressed through the game of kings.