Contents

• Chrétien in history / John W. Baldwin
• Chrétien’s patrons / June Hall McCash
• Chrétien’s literary background / Laurence Harf-Lancner
• The Arthurian legend before Chrétien / Norris J. Lacy
• Narrative poetics: rhetoric, orality and performance / Douglas Kelly
• The manuscripts of Chrétien’s romances / Keith Busby
• Editing Chrétien / Peter F. Dembowski
• Philomena: brutal transitions and courtly transformations in Chrétien’s old French translation / Roberta L. Krueger
• Erec et Enide: the first Arthurian romance / Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm- Maddox
• Cligés and the Chansons: a slave to love / Joan Tasker Grimbert
• Le chevalier de la charrette: that obscure object of desire, Lancelot / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
• Le chevalier au lion: Yvain lionheart / Tony Hunt
• Le conte du graal: Chrétien’s unfinished last romance / Rupert T. Pickens
• The continuations of the Conte du graal / Annie Combes
• Medieval translations and adaptations of Chrétien’s works / Michelle Szkilnik / Chrétien’s medieval influence: from the grail quest to the joy of the court / Emmanuèle Baumgartner