Courtisans Review: It's (Probably) Not What You Think

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This week, Jarom’s reporting on Courtisans, a feisty little game about court-clashing and queen-schmoozing for 2-5 players released by Pandasaurus Games earlier this year. The bottom line? It’s a lot of fun…. Though depending on your grasp of French, the title may strike you as a shade salacious. Thanks for watching! 0:00 The Queen is Throwing a Feast (you're invited) 9:06 Courtesans vs. Courtisans 11:29 The end Songs: ‘Medieval’: Gabe Schaffer ‘Bad Guy’: Bardcore ‘A Goofy and Silly Medieval Song’: Chimimin ‘Elevator Bossa Nova background’: Lesfm Further reading on courtesans in the Italian Renaissance and elsewhere: Bassanese, Fiora A. “Private Lives and Public Lies: Texts by Courtesans of the Italian Renaissance.” Renaissance Culture, Literature, and Genres 30, No. 3 (1988): 295-319. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40754861 Brosius, Amy. “Courtesan Singers as Courtiers: Power, Political Pawns, and the Arrest of virtuosa Nina Barcarola.” Journal of the American Musicological Society 73, No. 2 (2020): 207-266. https://www.jstor.org/stable/48740582 Zurndorfer, Harriet T. “Prostitutes and Courtesans in the Confucian Moral Universe of Late Ming China (1550-1644).” International Review of Social History, Col. 56 (2011): 197-216. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44583212 Cohen, Elizabeth S. “Times told: Women narrating the everyday in early modern Rome.” Gendered Temporalities in the Early Modern World (2018): 115-134. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv5qdfst.8 Books: Ruggiero, Guido. Boundaries of Eros: Sex Crime and Sexuality in Renaissance Venice. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. Feldman, Martha and Bonnie Gordon. The Courtesan’s Arts: Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. #courtisans #boardgame #review