Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. General Editor’s Foreword vii
4. I Beyond Shame: Chivalric Cowardice and Arthurian Narrative 1
5. II Malory’s Forty Knights 18
6. III Fooling with Language: Sir Dinadan in Malory’s Morte Darthur 30
7. IV William Caxton, Wynkyn de Worde and the Editing of Malory’s Morte Darthur 46
8. V Ballad and Popular Romance in the Percy Folio 68
9. VI Local Hero: Gawain and the Politics of Arthurianism 81
10. VII Promise-postponement Device in The Awntyrs off Arthure: a Possible Narrative Model 95
11. VIII L’Atre perilleux and the Erasure of Identity 109
12. IX The Theme of the Handsome Coward in the Post-Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal 117
13. X A Time of Gifts? Jean de Nesle, William A. Nitze and the Perlesvaus 130
14. XI Thomas Love Peacock’s The Misfortunes of Elphin and the Romantic Arthur 157
15. CONTENTS OF PREVIOUS VOLUMES 177