Court and Cultural Diversity

A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. JOHN SCATTERGOOD is Professor (Emeritus) of Medieval and Renaissance English at Trinity College, Dublin. MAUREEN BOULTON Professor of French, Department of Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Notre Dame.

The essays range very widely, and cover subjects as varied as troubadours and the Privy Wardrobe, dogs and cooking, book-collecting and Bosworth Field... Stimulating and original, they undoubtedly illuminae the diverse nature both of courtly writing and of the cultures that produced, listened to, and read such writings.

• `Poet and Prince in Medieval Ireland'. - Gearoid Mac Eoin`Court Poets and Historians in Late Medieval Connaught'. - Nollaig O Muraile`Courtly Acculturation in the Lais and Fables of Marie de France'. - Rupert Pickens`Locating the Court: Socio-Cultural Exchange in Jean Renart's L'Escoufle'. - Francoise H M Le Saux`Negative Self-Promotion: the Troubadour `Sirventes Joglaresc''. - Catherine Léglu`Odd Man Out: Villon at Court'. - Barbara Sargent-Baur ***`Animating Medieval Court Satire'. - Ad Putter`La Fin des Chroniques de Froissart et le tragique de la cour'. - Michel Zink`Domesticating Diversity: Female Founders in Medieval Genealogical Literature and La Fille de comte de Pontieu'. - Donald L Maddox``Dame Custance la gentil': Gaimar's Portrait of a Lady and Her Books'. - Jean Blacker`Alterity and Subjectivity in the Roman de Melusine'. - Sara Sturm-Maddox`Passelion, Marc l'Essilie et l'ideal courtois'. - Michelle Szkilnik`The Political Songs in the Chronicles of Pierre of Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannying'. - Thea Summerfield`Romance after Bosworth'. - Helen Cooper`Courtliness in Some Fourteenth-Century English Pastourelles'. - John Scattergood`Amor in Marie de France Equitan and Fresne: the Failure of the Courtly Ideal'. - June Hall McCash`Secondary Characters in Equitan and Eliduc'. - Joan Brumlik`The Optimistic Love-Poet: Philippe de Beaumanoir'. - Leslie C Brook`The Lady Speaks: The Transformation of French Courtly Poetry in the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries'. - Maureen Boulton`Nice Young Girls and Wicked Old Witches: The `Rightful Age' of Women in Middle English Verse'. - Jessica Cooke`Readers, Writers, and Lovers in Grimalte y Gradissa'. - Diana Wright`Shota Rustaveli and the Structure of Courtly Love'. - Bert Beynen`The Tournai Rose as a Secular and a Sacred Epithalamium'. - Lori J. Walters`The Gesta Henrici Quinti and the Bedford Psalter-Hours'. - Sylvia Wright`Medieval Equivalents of `quote-unquote': the Presentation of Spoken Words in Courtly Romance'. - Frank Brandsma`Courtly Romances in the Privy Wardrobe'. - Carter Revard`The Diabolic Hero in Medieval French Narrative: Trubert and Wistasse le Moine'. - A S G Edwards`Richard Hill - a London Compiler'. - Heather Collier`Our Food, Foreign Foods: Food as a Cultural Delimiter in the Middle Ages'. - Terence Scully`Courtly Cooking all'italiana: Gastronomical Approaches to Medieval Italian Literature'. - Christopher Kleinhenz`The Outsider at Court, or What is so Strange about the Stranger?'. - William MacBain``Pseudo'-Courtly Elements in a Canonical Epic'. - Sara I. James`The Prodigal Knight, the Hungry Mother and the Triple Murder: Mirrors and Marvels in the Dolopathos Dog Story'. - Mary B Speer`Une recluse fort (peu) courtoise: destin d'une anecdote dans le Roman des Sept Sages'. - Yasmina Foehr-Janssens`Courtly Discourse and Folklore in La Manekine'. - Carol J Harvey`The First-Person Narrator in Middle-Dutch Fabliaux'. - Bart Besamusca`The Diabolic Hero in Medieval French Narrative: Trubert and Wistasse le Moine'. - Keith Busby