Table of Contents
Valerie M. Lagorio: A Tribute
Mildred Leake Day Introduction: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley
Part I The Middle Ages: Inventing a Lost Past
Marie de France's Arthurian Lai : Subtle and Political David Chamberlain
Lévi-Strauss in Camelot: Interrupted Communication in Arthurian Feudal Fictions Donald Maddox
Arthur in Culhwch and Olwen and in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes Armel Diverres
The Knight as Reader of Arthurian Romance Elspeth Kennedy
The Stanzaic Morte Arthur : The Adaptation of a French Romance for an English Audience Edward Donald Kennedy
Was Merlin a Ghibelline? Arthurian Propaganda at the Court of Frederick II Donald L. Hoffman
A Grave Event: Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea's Bones James P. Carley
The Speaking Knight: Sir Gawain and Other Animals Felicity Riddy
Politicizing the Ineffable: The Queste del Saint Graal and Malory's "Tale of the Sankgreal" Martin B. Shichtman
"The Prowess of Hands": The Psychology of Alchemy in Malory's "Tale of Sir Gareth" Bonnie Wheeler
How Many Roads to Camelot: The Married Knight in Malory Maureen Fries
Part II Reinventing the Middle Ages
Spenser for Hire: Arthurian History as Cultural Capital in The Faerie Queene Laurie A. Finke
Arthur Before and After the Revolution: The Blome-Stansby Edition of Malory (1634) and Brittains Glory (1684) David R. Carlson
Reluctant Redactor: William Dyce Reads the Legend Debra N. Mancoff
The Snake in the Woodpile: Tennyson's Vivien as Victorian Prostitute Rebecca Umland
Feminism, Homosexuality, and Homophobia in The Mists of Avalon James Noble
Camelot 3000 and the Future of Arthur Charles T. Wood
Index