Table of Contents

Foreword - Bonnie Wheeler
Professor Peter Field, An Appreciation - Margaret Locherbie-Cameron
The Grail Romances and the Old Law - Fanni Bogdanow
What did Robert de Boron really write? - Linda Gowans
On Capitalization in some Early Manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut - Roger Middleton
Tristan Rossignol: the development of a text - Geoffrey Bromiley
What's in a Name? Arthurian Name-Dropping in the Roman de Waldef - Rosalind Field
The Enigma of the Prose Yvain - Norris J. Lacy
Dreams and Visions in the Perslesvaus - Andrea Williams
La Reine-Fée in the Roman de Perceforest: Rewriting, Rethinking - Jane H. M. Taylor
The Relationship between Text and Image in Three Manuscripts of the Estoire del Saint Graal (Lancelot Grail Cycle) - Elspeth M Kennedy ***
Wigalois and Parcival: Father and Son Roles in the German Romance of Gawain's Son - Neil E. Thomas
Reading between the Lines: a Vision of the Arthurian World reflected in Galician-Portuguese Poetry - Amelia Hutchinson
The Lost Beginning of the Jeaste of Syr Gawayne and the Collation of Bodlean Library MS Douce - Maldwyn Mills
Enide's see-through Dress - Roger Middleton
A Note on the Percy Folio Grene Knight - Douglas Gray
'False Friends' in the Works of the Gawain-Poet - Ad Putter
Place-Names in the The Awntyrs Off Arthure: corruption, conjecture, coincidence - Brian Allen
Lancelot as lover in the English tradition before Malory - Elizabeth Archibald
Malory and Middle English Verse Romance: The Case of Sir Tristram - Phillipa Hardman
Sir Thomas Malory's (French) Romance and (English) Chronicle - Edward Donald Kennedy
Romantic Self-Fashioning; Three Case Studies - David Mills
Are Further Emendations Necessary? A Note on the Definite and Indefinite Articles in the Winchester Malory - Yuji Nakao
Lucius's Exhortation in Winchester and Caxton - Ad Putter
The Historicity of Combat in Le Morte Darthur - Kevin S Whetter
Personal Weapons in Malory's Le Morte Darthur - Derek S Brewer
'now i take uppon me the adventures to seke of holy thynges': Lancelot and the Crisis of Arthurian Knighthood - Raluca Radulescu
Malory's Language of Love - Helen Cooper
P.J.C. Field's Worshipful Revision of Malory: Making Virtue of Necessity - Shunichi Noguchi
`Old Sir Thomas Malory's Enchanting Book': A Connecticut Yankee Reads Le Morte Darthur - Janet M. Cowen

About the Author

Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. Amélia P. Hutchinson is Senior Lecturer Emerita in Portuguese at the University of Georgia, USA; Director of the Fernão Lopes Translation Project; and Integrated Research Fellow at the Instituto de Estudos Medievais (IEM), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal. ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. JANE H.M. TAYLOR is Emeritus Professor of French at Durham University. K. S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University, Nova Scotia. PHILLIPA HARDMAN is Reader in Medieval English Literature (retired) at the University of Reading. Dr Raluca Radulescu is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Bangor University

Reviews

All the contributors share a common methodology: patient, meticulous, erudite study of texts and contexts. Such exemplary scholarship makes the manner, as well as the matter, of this volume a fitting tribute to the dedicatee.
*MEDIUM AEVUM*

There is much in this collection that is exciting and innovative, offering new insights and important research across a great range of texts and traditions.. This book deserves a place on every Arthurian scholar's shelf.
*MEDIEVAL REVIEW*