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Games of History

Games of History

Games and gaming as historical sources

  • Pregame
    • The unknown side of games
    • Setting the board …
    • Identifying GoH
    • Quick start guide
  • Syllabus
  • Video lectures
    • Definitions and classifications
    • Conceptual approaches to games
    • Games of Culture
    • Games of Society
    • Games of Politics
    • Games of Fortune
    • Games of Gender
    • Games of Eros
    • Games of Metaphysics
    • Did you know …
  • Readings
  • Contact

Did you know …

… that chess was played in medieval times with dice?

… that animal bones were used as dice before the invention of dice? 

… why the Ace of Spades is visually different than the other three aces? 

… what a teetotum is?

… that there are pyramid-like dice that are four millennia old?

… that for some people backgammon is more than a game?

… that backgammon is in in some areas a gendered game? 

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