A History of Games Played With the Tarot Pack: The Game of Triumphs, Vol. 1
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (825 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0773464476 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 402 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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With its many appendices and indices it will soon be a reference book for all historians.I strongly recommend this book." - Thierry Depaulis; "A book like this can only be written after years of research, which in the present case includes experience of playing the games. Detlef Hoffmann, Carl Von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg" . The huge store of knowledge and experience thus gained makes possible the authority and understatement with which the material is laid out." - Prof. Sir Michael Dummett is the leading authority on the history of the Tarot and John McLeod maintains the reference Internet site on card games. Doing this, they offer all researchers interested in the subject a powerful tool for the history and spread of the game of tarot and thus a great lesson in cultural history. Dr. The rigorous structure of each chapter facilitates compa
Finally it will be of prime value to any who wish to play one or more forms of the game.. It will also give examples, more instructive than could be given from any other family of card games, of how games evolve. In doing so, it developed a great multiplicity of different forms: the family is far more diverse than any other, while retaining a constant central core. This two-volume book gives as comprehensive a history as can be achieved at the present time of a family of card games that originated in the first quarter of the XV century, and is therefore one of the very oldest still practiced. It was invented to play a new kind of card game: its great contribution was to introduce the idea of trumps into card play. It is the family of games played with the Tarot pack. Contrary to popular belief, the Tarot pack was not invented for fortune-telling or any other occult purpose: that was an accretion dating from the late XVIII century. This book will gather material that is widely scattered and very hard to come by, a good deal of it not otherwise accessible in print at all. The games spread to France and Switzerland in the early XVI century, and subsequently over almost the whole of Europe. It will therefore be an indispen
A real masterpiece Mikko Saari My guess is that more than 99% of what is written about tarot in English is about fortune-telling. That's too bad, as divination wasn't the original purpose of tarot cards. They are playing cards, made for playing games - and there are plenty of great games played with the several different tarot packs, many of which are played actively even today.Michael Dummett is one of the leading experts in the field of tarot games, while John McLeod, the owner of Card Games web site is one of the leading experts on card games in general. Together they have created an excellent book, covering basically all fo. It will change your perception of Tarot forever! JIM WICKSON This is a two volume set covering virtually all that is now known of Tarot, Tarock, and Tarocchi games. The sole concern of these two volumes is the evolution of the Tarot card game rules with only a mention in passing of the occult uses of Tarot cards in the preface and very few illustrations of Tarot cards. Essentially, this is an update of Dummett's earlier 1980 book "Game of Tarot."Contrary to popular myth, Tarot cards were not originally intended for divination or any occult purpose. Tarot cards were originally intended for playing a type of trick taking card game with the so-called "Major Ar
He is the creator and editor of www pagat, the primary source on the Internet for card game information. He writes regularly for The Playing Card, the journal of the International Playing-Card Society, and has visited ten European countries to learn their national Tarot games. . In 2000, he was awarded the Modiano Prize for his contribution to playing-card research. John McLeod be