Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Preface ix
4. I. The Court Reconvenes: Plenary Lectures
5. La réception de la littérature courtoise du XIIe au XIVe siècle en Italie: nouvelles propositions 1
6. Literary Uses of Heraldry in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 15
7. The Figure of the King in Medieval German Courtly Literature 27
8. Women, Property and the Rise of Courtly Love 41
9. Knowledge as Therapy: A Comparison between the Confessio Amantis of Gower and the Breviari d’Amor of Matfre Ermengaud 57
10. II. Courtly Literature across the Disciplines
11. IDEOLOGIES OF LOVE AND COURTLINESS
12. Felony and Courtly Love 73
13. La Chanson des Nibelungen, un monde sans Dieu? 81
14. “Dieus et amors sont d’un acort”: The Theology of Love in the Lai de l’Oiselet 91
15. Didactic Strategies in the Ritterspiegel of Johannes Rothe 99
16. Lacan, Courtly Love and Anamorphosis 107
17. WOMEN’S VOICES, WOMEN’S ROLES
18. Songs by Women and Women’s Songs: How Useful is the Concept of Register? 117
19. Complaints of Women, Complaints by Women: Can One Tell Them Apart? 125
20. Implications of the Female Poetic Voice in Le Roman de Flamenca 133
21. Female enfances: At the Intersection of Romance and Epic 141
22. INCEST AND IDENTITY
23. Questions on the Theme of Incest in Courtly Literature 153
24. Incest, Identity and Uncourtly Conduct in La Manekine 161
25. Incest and Death in Marie de France’s Deus Amanz 169
26. Incest and Identity: Family Relationships in Emaré 179
27. POETICS
28. Approche de la notion de contexte en ancien français 189
29. Tracking the Anagram: Preparing a Phonetic Blueprint of Troubadour Poetry 199
30. Variations sur l’espace dans le lai du Chaitivel 215
31. Perceval’s Inner Wanderings: Growing out of Childhood in Chrétien de Troyes’s Conte du Graal 223
32. To Love or Not to Love 231
33. HISTORICAL APPROACHES
34. Prefigurations of Courtliness in the Bayeux Tapestry 241
35. Did John of Earley Write the Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal? 255
36. The Loyal and Disloyal Servants of King John 265
37. The Ins and Outs of Court: Guiraut Riquier’s Poetics of Ostracism 275
38. Eleonora d’Este and the Heroines of Boiardo’s Orlando innamorato: Challenging Gender Stereotypes at the Ferrara Court 285
39. ADAPTATIONS AND TRANSFORMATIONS
40. “E fer en cortoisie retorner li villan”: Roland in Persia in the Entrée d’Espagne 297
41. Les songes animaliers dans le Lancelot en prose: du serpent, du lion et du léopard 309
42. Bisclavret to Biclarel via Melion and Bisclaret: The Development of a Misogynous Lai 317
43. Embodying the Rose: An Intertextual Reading of Alain Chartier’s La Belle Dame sans mercy 325
44. La Sombra de Petrarca en la Poesía Cancioneril 335
45. “Höfische Minne” auf der Meistersängerbühne: Zur Dramatisierung höfischer Liebesromane durch Hans Sachs 345
46. APRÉS-PROPOS
47. Elastic 359