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Special Issue: Le Roman de Silence
Edited by F. Regina Psaki

Introduction 3

F. Regina Psaki

The Importance of Being Gender 'Stable': Masculinity and Feminine Empowerment in Le Roman de Silence 7

Lorraine Kochanske Stock

The Third Path: Alternative Sex, Alternative Gender in Le Roman de Silence 35

Elizabeth A. Waters

Lesbian Desire in the Old French Roman de Silence 47

Kathleen M. Blumreich

The Specular Image of the Gender-Neutral Name: Naming Silence in Le Roman de Silence 63

Erin F. Labbie

The Modern Editor and Medieval 'Misogyny': Text Editing and Le Roman de Silence 78

F. Regina Psaki

The Non-Existent Knight: Adventure in Le Roman de Silence 87

Caroline A. Jewers

Le Roman de Silence: Allegory in Ruin or Womb of Irony? 111

Gloria Thomas Gilmore

Works Cited 124

Round Table 129

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REVIEWS

James P. Carley, Glastonbury Abbey 137

Andrew Breeze

Brigitte Cazelles, The Unholy Grail: A Social Reading of Chrétien de Troye's 'Conte du Graal' 138

David C. Fowler

Mary Vandegrift Mills, The Pilgrimage Motif in the Works of the Medieval
German Author Hartmann von Aue 140

George E. Harding

Katherine G. Maccornack, Mental Representations Theory in Old French Allegory
from the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 142

Judith S. Neaman

Ross G. Arthur and Noel L. Corbett, The Knight of the Two Swords:
A Thirteenth-Century Arthurian Romance 143

Angela Jane Weisl

Norris J. Lacy, ed., Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature 145

Richard G. Moll

Derek Brewer, ed., Medieval Comic Tales 146

Donald L. Hoffman

Richard J. Utz, ed., Literary Nominalism and the Theory of Rereading Late Medieval Texts:
A New Research Paradigm 147

Maureen Fries

Rebecca A. Umland and Samuel J. Umland, The Use of the Arthurian Legend in Hollywood Film:
From Connecticut Yankees to Fisher Kings 148

Kevin J. Harty