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MDT Ep. 65: Concerning Pawns and Politics

Medieval Death Trip

English - December 27, 2018 08:01 - 34 minutes - 47.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 228 ratings
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In this final episode in our holiday chess series, we finish off the last pages in William Caxton's The Game and Playe of the Chess, looking at the pawn and the importance of the common people to the realm, and we consider the how to explain pawns becoming queens in a medieval context.