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Introduction 1

James Noble

Eorles and Beornes: Contextualizing Lawman's Brut 4

Rosamund Allen

Women, Power, and (the Undermining of) Order in Lawman's Brut 23

Maureen Fries

Þat kinewurðe bed [a bed fit for a king]: Thematic Wordplay in Lawman's Brut 33

Carole Weinberg

Narrators, Messengers, and Lawman's Brut 46

Joseph D. Parry

Affective Poetics and Scribal Reperformance in Lawman's Brut: A Comparison of the Caligula and Otho Versions

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Jonathan Watson

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REVIEWS

Lesley Smith, trans., Medieval Exegesis in Translation: Commentaries on the Book of Ruth 84

Richard Newhauser

Giles Constable, The Reformation of the Twelfth Century 85

John O. Ward

Keith Busby, Word and Image in Arthurian Literature 88

Janina P. Traxler

Wendy Pfeffer, Proverbs in Medieval Occitan Literature 90

William Burgwinkle

John I. Jenkins, Knowledge and Faith in Thomas Aquinas 91

Philipp W. Rosemann

Gloria Allaire, Andrea da Barberino and the Language of Chivalry 93

Don Hoffman

Catherine S. Cox, Gender and Language in Chaucer 94

Kathleen Coyne Kelly

James P. Carley and Felicity Riddy, eds., Arthurian Literature XV 96

John Withrington

Rita Copeland, ed., Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages 97

Keith E. Ward

Edwin Brezette De Windt, A Slice of Life: Selected Documents of Medieval Peasant Experience 98

Sandy Bardsley

Claire Sponsler, Drama and Resistance: Bodies, Goods, and Theatricality in Late Medieval England 100

Jeffrey Jerome Cohen

Suzanne Reynolds, Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical Text 101

Robert S. Sturges

Diane Watt, ed., Medieval Women in their Communities 103

June Hall McCash

Walther Haug, Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages. The German tradition, 800-1300, in its European context 105

Richard J. Utz

Joyce Coleman, Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France 107

Howell Chickering

Masahiko Kanno, Masahiko Agari, and Gregory K. Jember, eds., Essays on English Literature and Languages in Honor of Shun'ichi Noguchi 108

Karen Cherewatuk

Michael Glencross, Reconstructing Camelot: French Romantic Medievalism and the Arthurian Tradition 109

Jeremy duQuesnay Adams

Malcolm Warner, Anne Helmreich, and Charles Brock, The Victorians: British Painting 1837-1901 112

James A. Butler

Stephen Knight and Thomas Ohlgren, eds., Robin Hood and Other Outlaw Tales 113

Lorraine K. Stock

Richard White, ed., King Arthur in Legend and History 116

D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.

Norris Lacy and Geoffrey Ashe with Debra N. Mancoff, The Arthurian Handbook, 2nd ed. 117

Alan Lupack

Kath Filmer-Davies, Fantasy, Fiction, and Welsh Myth: Tales of Belonging 118

Richard H. Osberg

Marion Zimmer Bradley, Lady of Avalon 120

Jacqueline Jenkins

Le Morte d'Arthur: The Legend of the King. Films for the Humanities and Sciences 123

Elizabeth Sklar

Gawain and the Green Knight. Films for the Humanities and Sciences 124

Robert J. Blanch

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BRIEFER NOTICES

Marie-Francoise Alamichel and Derek Brewer, eds., The Middle Ages after the Middle Ages
Harold R. Foster, Prince Valiant: In the Days of King Arthur
Thomas J. Garbaty, ed., Medieval English literature
Caitlin Matthews and John Matthews, The Arthurian Book of Days, The Greatest Legend in the World Retold Throughout the Year
John Tyerman Williams, Pooh and the Ancient Mysteries
Anthony Hickox, dir., Prinz Eienherz/Prince Valiant
Kenneth Burton, dir., Merlin's Shop of Magical Wonders
Richard Kurti, dir., Seaview Knights 126

Kevin J. Harty