Jacob Schmidt-Madsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6406767 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Schmidt-Madsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Schmidt-Madsen |
| SIGNATURE | SCHMIDT-MADSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Copenhagen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Tree with Many Roots
Discovering Dadu
Dadu is a traditional board game exclusively played within the Muslim Dawoodi Bohra community in South Asia. Most households have their own hand-stitched cloth board, together with a set of wood-turned playing pieces and cowrie shells for dice. Though formally a two-player game, it is commonly played in large teams during family gatherings. Non-community members rarely take part and the game remains virtually unknown to outsiders. Descriptions of…
Gameplay as Foreplay at a Medieval Indian Court
This study focuses on the singular courtly game of phañjikā described in the 12th-century Mānasollāsa attributed to King Someśvara III of the Western Cālukya Empire. It shows that phañjikā belongs to the family of cruciform race games, which also counts the famous games of caupaṛ and paccīsī among its members. Phañjikā, however, predates the earliest evidence for both of those games by several centuries, and should therefore be considered an earl…
The Crux of the Cruciform
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The Crux of the Cruciform
Sciendo provides publishing services and solutions to academic and professional organizations and individual authors. We publish journals, books, conference proceedings and a variety of other publications
Gameplay as Foreplay at a Medieval Indian Court
This study focuses on the singular courtly game of phañjikā described in the 12th-century Mānasollāsa attributed to King Someśvara III of the Western Cālukya Empire. It shows that phañjikā belongs to the family of cruciform race games, which also counts the famous games of caupaṛ and paccīsī among its members. Phañjikā, however, predates the earliest evidence for both of those games by several centuries, and should therefore be considered an earl…
Discovering Dadu
Dadu is a traditional board game exclusively played within the Muslim Dawoodi Bohra community in South Asia. Most households have their own hand-stitched cloth board, together with a set of wood-turned playing pieces and cowrie shells for dice. Though formally a two-player game, it is commonly played in large teams during family gatherings. Non-community members rarely take part and the game remains virtually unknown to outsiders. Descriptions of…
A Tree with Many Roots
Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · Ancient history (1 work) · Ancient Near East History (1 work) · Archaeology (1 work) · Art (1 work) · Climatology (1 work) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (1 work) · Combinatorics (1 work) · COVID-19 epidemiological studies (1 work)