A new board game designed to teach the old rules of masculinity

Some years ago, my senior class on medieval masculinity was discussing an article by historian Barbara Hanawalt about men and poaching in medieval England. We were focusing on Hanawalt’s analysis of a medieval poem, “The Parlement of the Thre Ages” that includes a description of poaching a deer, slaughtering it and quickly hiding the remains. At the back of the class an otherwise quiet student was shaking his head. More...