Question by Tani: I want to learn the history of Tarot, please?
I would like to find some sites, but serious webs only. I don’t want to know my future at all. I just want to learn when it all began, where, and so.
Thanks!!
Best answer:
Answer by Pamela
The Hermitage: A Tarot History Site
Has lots info plus links to other Web Resources if you need it.
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There are a few such sites:
http://a_pollett.tripod.com/
This site is a more general history of playing cards, including tarot.
http://www.tarothermit.com/
A good history site, with a range of illustrations
http//:www.trionfi.com
This is a huge resource of documents relating to tarot. They have a controversial theory about the cards origins but are highly respected. There is also a very large gallery of card images that will help illustrate the development of the cards over their 600 years.
http://ludustriumphorum.blogspot.com/
This is a blog by Ross Caldwell and Michael Hurst, two well known figures researching tarot’s history.
http://pre-gebelin.blogspot.com/
Michael Hursts’ blog.
http://forum.tarothistory.com/
A forum dedicated to tarot’s history.
http://www.tarochino.com
A site intruducing the card games but with an introduction to their history.
You might also want to look for some books:
The Game of Tarot
by Michael Dummett with the assistance of Sylvia Mann
Duckworth 1980 ISBN 0 7156 10147
A History of Games played with the Tarot Pack Volumes One & Two
By Michael Dummett and John McLeod
Edwin Mellen Press 2004
Volume One ISBN 0 7734 6447 6
Volume Two ISBN 0 7734 6449 2
Supplement from Maproom Publications 2009 ISBN 978 0 9562370 0 2
A Wicked Pack of Cards
By Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis & Michael Dummett
St Martin’s Press 1996 ISBN 0 312 16294 4
A History of the Occult Tarot 1870-1970
By Ronald Decker and Michael Dummett
Duckworth 2002 ISBN 0 7156 3122 5