Alphonse X "The Wise". A Castillian king basically sanctioned a book on board games, from chess to a few less known ones with dice. Enough said. There's tons of difference between the 6th century and the 12th.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libro_de_los_juegos

This would blow out lots of Anglo-Saxon minds with a very bad depiction of Middle Ages compared to the modern era from Newton. But, IRL, it was all about a gradual modernization of thinking.

People didn't just became modern with the Enlightenment and then the Industrial Revolution. It happened tons of stuff in between.