Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Foreword xi
5. Professor Peter Field: An Appreciation xiii
6. 1 The Grail Romances and the Old Law 1
7. 2 What Did Robert de Boron Really Write? 15
8. 3 On Capitalization in Some Early Manuscripts of Wace’s Roman de Brut 29
9. 4 Tristan Rossignol: The Development of a Text 49
10. 5 What’s in a Name? Arthurian Name-Dropping in the Roman de Waldef 63
11. 6 The Enigma of the Prose Yvain 65
12. 7 Dreams and Visions in the Perlesvaus 73
13. 8 La Reine Fée in the Roman de Perceforest: Rewriting, Rethinking 81
14. 9 The Relationship between Text and Image in Three Manuscripts of the Estoire del Saint Graal (Lancelot-Grail Cycle) 93
15. 10 Wigalois and Parzival: Father and Son Roles in the German Romance of Gawain’s Son 101
16. 11 Reading between the Lines: A Vision of the Arthurian World Reflected in Galician-Portuguese Poetry 117
17. 12 The Lost Beginning of The Jeaste of Syr Gaweyne and the Collation of Bodleian Library MS Douce 261 133
18. 13 Enide’s See-through Dress 143
19. 14 A Note on the Percy Folio Grene Knight 165
20. 15 ‘False Friends’ in the Works of the Gawain-Poet 173
21. 16 Place-Names in The Awntyrs Off Arthure: Corruption, Conjecture, Coincidence 181
22. 17 Lancelot as Lover in the English Tradition before Malory 199
23. 18 Malory and Middle English Verse Romance: The Case of Sir Tristrem 217
24. 19 Sir Thomas Malory’s (French) Romance and (English) Chronicle 223
25. 20 Romantic Self-Fashioning: Three Case Studies 235
26. 21 Are Further Emendations Necessary? A Note on the Definite and Indefinite Articles in the Winchester Malory 247
27. 22 Lucius’s Exhortation in Winchester and The Caxton 253
28. 23 The Historicity of Combat in Le Morte Darthur 261
29. 24 Personal Weapons in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur 271
30. 25 ‘now I take uppon me the adventures to seke of holy thynges’: Lancelot and the Crisis of Arthurian Knighthood 285
31. 26 Malory’s Language of Love 297
32. 27 P.J.C. Field’s Worshipful Revision of Malory: Making a Virtue of Necessity 307
33. 28 ‘Old Sir Thomas Malory’s Enchanting Book’: A Connecticut Yankee Reads Le Morte Darthur 311
34. P.J.C. Field: Publications 325
35. Notes on Contributors 331
36. Tabula Gratulatoria 335