Contents

• Valerie M. Lagorio: A Tribute / Mildred Leake Day
• Introduction: The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend / Martin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley
• Marie de France’s Arthurian Lai: Subtle and Political / David Chamberlain
• Levi-Strauss in Camelot: Interrupted Communication in Arthurian Feudal Fictions / Donald Maddox
• Arthur in Culhwch and Olwen and in the Romances of Chretien de Troyes / Armel Diverres
• The Knight as Reader of Arthurian Romance / Elspeth Kennedy
• The Stanzaic Morte Arthur: The Adaptation of a French Romance for an English Audience / Edward Donald Kennedy
• Was Merlin a Ghibelline? Arthurian Propaganda at the Court of Frederick II / Donald L. Hoffman
• A Grave Event: Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea’s Bones / James P. Carley
• The Speaking Knight: Sir Gawain and Other Animals / Felicity Riddy
• Politicizing the Ineffable: The Queste del Saint Graal and Malory’s "Tale of the Sankgreal" / Martin B. Shichtman
• "The Prowess of Hands" : The Psychology of Alchemy in Malory’s "Tale of Sir Gareth" / Bonnie Wheeler
• How Many Roads to Camelot: The Married Knight in Malory / Maureen Fries
• Spenser for Hire: Arthurian History as Cultural Capital in The Faerie Queene / Laurie A. Finke
• Arthur Before and After the Revolution: The Blome-Stansby Edition of Malory (1634) and Brittains Glory (1684) / David R. Carlson
• Reluctant Redactor: William Dyce Reads the Legend / Debra N. Mancoff
• The Snake in the Woodpile: Tennyson’s Vivien as Victorian Prostitute / Rebecca Umland
• Feminism, Homosexuality, and Homophobia in The Mists of Avalon / James Noble
• Camelot 3000 and the Future of Arthur / Charles T. Wood