Susan Carter is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland and contributes to the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, the Art of Supervision and the supervision seminar series within the Centre for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. S. Elizabeth Passmore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, and specializes in Chaucer, Ricardian Literature, and the history of the English language.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface Introduction by S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter Through the Counsel of a Lady: The Irish and English Loathly Lady Tales and the Mirrors for Princes' Genre by S. Elizabeth Passmore The Politics of Strengthe and Vois in Gower's Loathly Lady Tale by R. F. Yeager Sovereignty through the Lady: The Wife of Bath's Tale and the Queenship of Anne of Bohemia by Elizabeth M. Biebel-Stanley A Hymenation of Hags by Susan Carter Folklore and Powerful Women in Gower's Tale of Florent by Russell A. Peck Controlling the Loathly Lady, or What Really Frees Dame Ragnelle by Paul Gaffney The Marriage of Sir Gawain: Piecing the Fragments Together by Stephanie Hollis A Jungian Approach to the Ballad King Henry by Mary Edwards Shaner Repainting the Lion: The Wife of Bath's Tale and a Traditional British Ballad by Lynn M. Wollstadt Why Dame Ragnell Had to Die: Feminine Usurpation of Male Authority in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell by Mary Leech Brains or Beauty: Limited Sovereignty in the Loathly Lady Tales The Wife of Bath's Tale, Thomas of Erceldoune, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle by Ellen M. Caldwell

Susan Carter is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland and contributes to the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, the Art of Supervision and the supervision seminar series within the Centre for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. S. Elizabeth Passmore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, and specializes in Chaucer, Ricardian Literature, and the history of the English language.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface Introduction by S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter Through the Counsel of a Lady: The Irish and English Loathly Lady Tales and the Mirrors for Princes' Genre by S. Elizabeth Passmore The Politics of Strengthe and Vois in Gower's Loathly Lady Tale by R. F. Yeager Sovereignty through the Lady: The Wife of Bath's Tale and the Queenship of Anne of Bohemia by Elizabeth M. Biebel-Stanley A Hymenation of Hags by Susan Carter Folklore and Powerful Women in Gower's Tale of Florent by Russell A. Peck Controlling the Loathly Lady, or What Really Frees Dame Ragnelle by Paul Gaffney The Marriage of Sir Gawain: Piecing the Fragments Together by Stephanie Hollis A Jungian Approach to the Ballad King Henry by Mary Edwards Shaner Repainting the Lion: The Wife of Bath's Tale and a Traditional British Ballad by Lynn M. Wollstadt Why Dame Ragnell Had to Die: Feminine Usurpation of Male Authority in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell by Mary Leech Brains or Beauty: Limited Sovereignty in the Loathly Lady Tales The Wife of Bath's Tale, Thomas of Erceldoune, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle by Ellen M. Caldwell

Susan Carter is a senior lecturer at the University of Auckland and contributes to the Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice, the Art of Supervision and the supervision seminar series within the Centre for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. S. Elizabeth Passmore is Associate Professor of English at the University of Southern Indiana, and specializes in Chaucer, Ricardian Literature, and the history of the English language.

• Acknowledgements Abbreviations Preface Introduction by S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter Through the Counsel of a Lady: The Irish and English Loathly Lady Tales and the Mirrors for Princes' Genre by S. Elizabeth Passmore The Politics of Strengthe and Vois in Gower's Loathly Lady Tale by R. F. Yeager Sovereignty through the Lady: The Wife of Bath's Tale and the Queenship of Anne of Bohemia by Elizabeth M. Biebel-Stanley A Hymenation of Hags by Susan Carter Folklore and Powerful Women in Gower's Tale of Florent by Russell A. Peck Controlling the Loathly Lady, or What Really Frees Dame Ragnelle by Paul Gaffney The Marriage of Sir Gawain: Piecing the Fragments Together by Stephanie Hollis A Jungian Approach to the Ballad King Henry by Mary Edwards Shaner Repainting the Lion: The Wife of Bath's Tale and a Traditional British Ballad by Lynn M. Wollstadt Why Dame Ragnell Had to Die: Feminine Usurpation of Male Authority in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell by Mary Leech Brains or Beauty: Limited Sovereignty in the Loathly Lady Tales The Wife of Bath's Tale, Thomas of Erceldoune, The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle by Ellen M. Caldwell