2 Ale-wives in Welsh Poetry c. 1450–c. 1650

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Contributors viii
5. Introduction: Medieval Welsh Literature and its European Contexts 1
6. 1 Horseplay: Another Look at Rhieingerdd Efa 7
7. 2 Ale-wives in Welsh Poetry c. 1450–c. 1650 20
8. 3 A Forest, a Spring, and a Lion: Nature in Three Romances 35
9. 4 Territorial Narrative in the Mabinogi 55
10. 5 Making War, Love, and Porridge in the Cath Maige Tuired 68
11. 6 Locating St Brendan in Medieval Wales 81
12. 7 The Lorica of Laidcenn and Early English Glossaries 96
13. 8 A Romance of England and Wales: ‘Logres’ in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 114
14. 9 Female Spirituality as Spectral Presence in the Medieval Welsh March and its Writings 131
15. 10 Adam Usk’s Epitaph(s): Shaping Identity in a Medieval Borderland 150
16. 11 Borders in Translation: English Resistance to Borderless Empire in Jean d’Arras’s Mélusine 172
17. 12 The Cely and Johnson Letters and the Languages of Calais, 1347–1558 190
18. 13 Shelley’s Welsh Bible 209
19. Tribute: Helen Fulton and Welsh Medieval Studies 221
20. Bibliography of Professor Helen Fulton’s Key Publications 227
21. Index 232
22. Tabula Gratulatoria 238