Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Table of Contents V
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1 Reimagining Medieval Studies: The Career of Thomas Hahn 9
5. Part I Marginalized Texts, Traditions, and Voices
6. Chapter 2 Racialized Outcasts: Non-White Bodies and the Construction of the Outlaw-Hero in Modern Robin Hood Film 21
7. Chapter 3 The Mongols of Middle English Literature 49
8. Chapter 4 Lybeaus Desconus: Illegitimacy and the Spurious Mother 77
9. Chapter 5 Thomas Becket and the Pardoner’s Problem: Eunuchry and Healing on the Road to Canterbury 99
10. Chapter 6 Anxious Appearance: Illustrating Dissimulation and the Case of the Counterfeit Crank 119
11. Chapter 7 Acallam na Senórach and Border-Discourse 135
12. Chapter 8 Ecomedieval Revenge and Justice in “Robyn and Gandelyn” 161
13. Chapter 9 Outcast Lyrics: Responsive Reading in the Findern Manuscript 183
14. Part II: Networks of Connection
15. Chapter 10 Decoding the Dead: Funerary Inscriptions in St. Erkenwald and The Book of John Mandeville 205
16. Chapter 11 Alexander the Great: A Study of Legitimacy, Futility, and the Problem of Getting Home Safely in Gower’s Confessio Amantis 223
17. Chapter 12 Richard Coer de Lyon and Invented Identities 239
18. Chapter 13 The Crow’s “Cokkow!”: Bird Debates and Chaucer’s “Manciple’s Tale” 265
19. Chapter 14 Perceval’s Mare 289
20. Chapter 15 Gower’s Aristotelian Legacy: Reading Responsibility in the Confessio Amantis and the Lytle Bibell of Knyghthod 305
21. Chapter 16 “The Prioress’s Tale” and Vernacular Devotion 323
22. Index 347