Table of Contents
Preface
Notes on references and abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1 Lai le Freine: The Female Foundling and the Prolem of Romance Genre
Chapter 2 Lanval to Sir Laurifal: A Story Becomes Popular
Chapter 3 The Tale ef Gamelyn: Class Warfare and the Embarrassments of Genre
Chhapter 4 The Romance Hypothetical: Lordship and the Saracens in Sir Isumbras
Chapter 5 Violence, Narrative and Proper Name: Sir Degare, 'The Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkney', and the Folie Tristan d'OxfOrd
Chapter 6 Loving Beasts: The Romance of William ef Paleme
Chapter 7: The Narrative Logic of Emare
Chapter 8 Tiie Seege ef Troye: 'ff or wham was wakened al this wo'?
Chapter 9 Romance and Its Discontents in Eger and Grime
Chapter 10 From Beyond the Grave: Darkness at Noon in Tiie Awnfyrs qff Arthure
Chapter 11 Gender, Oaths and Ambiguity in Sir Tristrem and Beroul's Roman de Tristan
Chapter 12 Sir Difeo: Madness and Gender
bliography
Notes on contributors
Index