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Introduction 3

Norris Lacy

The Perpetual Enigma of Chrétien's Grail Episode 6

Jeff Rider

Wolfram's Grail 22

William C. McDonald

Mothers in the Grail Quest: Desire, Pleasure, and Conception 35

Peggy McCracken

Gender, Genealogy, and the 'Story of the Three Spindles' in the Queste del Saint Graal 49

Jennifer E. Looper

Gender and the Grail 67

Maureen Fries

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Paolo Cherchi, Andreas and the Ambiguity of Courtly Love 80

Stephen Stallcup

Claudia Seebass-Linggi, Lecture d' 'Erec':Traces epiques et troubadouresques dan le conte de Chretien de Troyes

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Norris J. Lacy

Roger Pensom, Reading Beroul's Tristan: A poetic Narrative and the Anthropology of its Reception 83

Janina P. Traxler

Lisa Jefferson, Oaths, Vows and Promises in the First Part of the French Prose Lancelot Romance 85

Judith Barban

Norris J. Lacy, ed., Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation, vol.III 86

Karen Fresco

Joelle Fuhrmann, La representation de la femme dans le 'novelle' allemande du moyen age tardif: Description de quelques schemas normatifs de l'imaginaire masculin et patriarcal 91

Hartwig Mayer

Idelle Sullens, ed., Robert Mannyng of Brunne: The Chronicle 92

Richard J. Moll

Andrew Lynch, Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur 93

P.J.C. Field

Elizabeth Archibald and A.S.G. Edwards, eds., A Companion to Malory 95

Maureen Fries

Elizabeth Archibald and A.S.G. Edwards, eds., A Companion to Malory 97

Edward Donald Kennedy

Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage, eds., Handbook of Medieval Sexuality 99

Michael Uebel

Das Mittelalter: Perpektiven mediavistischer Forschung. Joerg O. Ficte, ed., 'Providentia-Fatum-Fortuna.' Hedwig Rochelein and Hans-Werner Goetz, eds., 'Frauen-Beziehungsgeflechte in Mittelalter 100

Susan Hafner

D. Vance Smith and Michael Uebel, Medieval Studies. A Special issue of New Literary History 102

Laurie Finke

Pietro Boitani and Anna Torti, eds., Medievalitas: Reading the Middle Ages 103

Janine Rogers

Frederick Lees, The Arthuriad of Catamandus 105

Caitlin Matthews

Frederick Lees, The Arthuriad of Catamandus 106

Tim Clarkson