In medieval Europe, card games occasioned drinking, gambling, and a host of other vices that drew cheats and charlatans to the table. Card playing became so widespread and disruptive that authorities banned it. In his book The Game of Tarot, the historian Michael Dummett explains that a 1377 ordinance forbade card games on workdays in Paris. Similar bans were enacted throughout Europe as preachers sought to regulate card playing, convinced that “the Devil’s picture book” led only to a life of depravity.
I'm working backward actually. I followed a link to the above article from The Atlantic via a NY Times article (today, April 1, 2020) entitled:
16 Aesthetically Pleasing Puzzles and Games to Play at Home
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/30/t-ma ... ion=AtHome Admittedly some of the prices for these lovely, bored and quarantined at home games are steep. Actually, who are we to criticize, these prices are about the same price for a beautiful Tarot deck, OOP or not
