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Introduction  3

F. Regina Psaki

A Reappraisal of the Role of Merlin in the Roman de Silence 6

Sarah Roche-Mahdi

Civilization and Its Discontents: Cultural Primitivism and the Depiction of Merlin as a Wild Man in the Roman de Silence 22

Lorraine Kochanske Stock

The Crossdresser and the Juventus: Category Crisis in Silence 37

Robert S. Sturges

Queering Gender and Naturalizing Class in the Roman de Silence 50

Robert L.A. Clark

Male-Order Brides: Marriage, Patriarchy, and Monarchy in the Roman de Silence 64

Sharon Kinoshita

Genealogy and Cross-Gendering in Le Roman de Silence and Ariake no Wakare [Parting at Dawn] 76

Robert Omar Khan

Li Mireor du Monde: Specularity in the Roman de Silence 85

Kathy M. Krause

Strategies for Teaching the Roman de Silence 92

Kathleen Blumreich

Images of Romance: The Miniatures of Erec et Enide and Le Roman de Silence 101

Michelle Bolduc

Sacred Romance: Silence and the Hagiographical Tradition 113

Lynne Dahmen

Lyric Discourse and Female Vocality: On the Unsilencing of Silence 123

Christopher Callahan

Works Cited 132

The Round Table 141