Pièces de jeu et milieu aristocratique dans le Centre-Ouest de la France (Xe-XIIe s.)

Bourgeois, Luc

doi:10.3406/aquit.2001.1334

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“…The A-type merels game appears in Arabic sources in the tenth c. when it seems to have been played in Mecca (Murray 1969: 194;Berger 2004). It is documented again in an Arabic text of the early fifteenth c. but first appears in Western Europe in the sixteenth c. (Murray 1978;Bourgeois 2001).…”

Section: Discoveries and Research On The Merels Board Outside Chinamentioning

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“…Two B-type merels wooden boards were found in Viking boat burials: one is engraved with another game on the verso (Gokstad, Norway) and is securely dated from the end of the AD ninth century (Nicolaysen 1882), the other one (Årby, Sweden) is dated from the early AD tenth century (Arbman 1940). In France, the games dated between the 10th and the twelfth c. have mostly been discovered in aristocratic contexts, comforting the functions of reception and sociability of these privileged spaces (Bourgeois 2001).…”

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Research on the merels game in medieval China

Sebillaud

2020

asian archaeol

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The merels game is a kind of board game that has been played in the Mediterranean region since the Antiquity and spread all over Eurasia during the Middle Age. There are three types of merels boards in China, among which the type with three-layer concentric squares and diagonals is the most common. After reviewing all the available archaeological data, this article shows that this game spread to China along the grassland Silk Roads. It was introduced into the Bohai State at the latest during the Tang Dynasty (AD ninth century) and became popular in the northern grassland and northeast China regions during the Liao and Jin Dynasties (AD tenth-thirteenth centuries). It spreads to the Central Plains as early as the Northern Song Dynasty and kept on circulating during the following centuries. During the Ming Dynasty, it was called "Macheng" and became a popular chess game often played in the streets.

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Section: Discoveries and Research On The Merels Board Outside Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Discoveries and Research On The Merels Board Outside Chinamentioning

confidence: 99%