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    • Daily History Picture: Playing Medieval Chess November 17, 2014

    Author: Beach Combing | in : Historical Pictures , trackback

    Fesonas and Cassiel the Baudrain Playing Chess. Jacques de Longuyon, Vows of the Peacock; Belgium, Tournai, ca. 1345-50. Pierpont Morgan Library, MS G.24, f. 25v (detail).

    A fourteenth-century chess game. What’s the blue bag for on high?