Foreword: Playing, Gambling and Cheating in Early Modern England and France

Far from being a purely incidental aspect of daily life in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, gambling and games of chance sparked heated controversies on both sides of the Channel throughout the period. The engagement of these activities with money, well studied by historians, made them objec...

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Main Authors: Line Cottegnies, Louise Fang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Institut du Monde Anglophone 2021-05-01
Series:Etudes Epistémè
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/9589