Magistra Doctissima

Dorsey Armstrong is Associate Professor of English and medieval literature at Purdue University. Ann W. Astell is a Professor of theology at the University of Notre Dame. Howell Chickering is Professor Emeritus from Amherst College.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction by Ann W. Astell and Howell ChickeringPart 1. Old and Middle English LiteratureKiyoko Nagase and Her "Grendel’s Mother" by Toshiyuki TakamiyaBritish Chaucer by Jeffrey Jerome CohenJust How Loathly Is the "Wyf"?: Deconstructing Chaucer's "Hag" in The Wife of Bath's Tale by Lorraine Kochanske StockLectio difficilior and All That: Another Look at Arcite's Injury by †Stephen StallcupPart 2. Arthuriana Then and NowArthurian Bones and English Kings, ca. 1180-ca. 1550 by †Maurice KeenThe Prophecies of Merlin: Their Originality and Importance by Geoffrey Ashe, MBENotes toward a Reappraisal of Malory's Prose Style by D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.The Scottish Lancelot of the Laik and Malory's Morte Darthur: Contrasting Approaches to the Same Story by Edward Donald Kennedy"The Strength of Ten": The Cultural Resonance of Tennyson's "Sir Galahad" by Alan LupackGoogling the Grail by Donald L. Hoffman and Elizabeth S. SklarPart 3. Joan of Arc Then and Now"Because It Was Paris": Joan of Arc's Attack on Paris Reconsidered by Kelly R. DeVriesWarrior not Warmonger: Screen Joans during World War I by Kevin HartyThe Drama of Left-Wing Joan: From "Merlin's Prophecy" to Hellman's Lark by Nadia MargolisPart 4. Nuns and SpiritualityA Letter to the Abbess of Fontevrault from the Abbot of Clairvaux by Giles ConstableThe Nuns of Bival in the Thirteenth Century by William Chester JordanThe Sonic Presence of Mary Magdalene at the Last Supper: The Maundy of the Poor at Barking Abbey by Anne Bagnall YardleyThe Royal Purple Mantle of El Greco's Espolio by Annemarie Weyl CarrPart 5. Royal WomenSigned, Sealed and Delivered: The Patronage of Constance de France by William W. ClarkThe Testamentary Strategies of Jeanne d'Évreux: The Endowment of Saint-Denis in 1343 by Elizabeth A. R. BrownContributorsIndex