29 studies of courtly literature from six different traditions in four languages.The essays presented here study the different linguistic and literary traditions of courtly literature, across four languages, using a wide range of approaches and taking a number of different perspectives; they reflect both current preoccupations in scholarship and perennial concerns, and use both traditional and new methodologies to study a variety of texts. Topics covered include ideologies of love and courtliness; women's voices and roles; incest and identity; poetics; historical approaches; and adaptations and transformations. First delivered at the 1998 meeting of the International Courtly Literature Society at Vancouver, the articles demonstrate the vitality of the field andoffer fresh new insights into the tradition of courtly literature as a whole.

La réception de la littérature courtoise du XIIe au XIVe siècle en Italie: nouvelles propositions - Valeria Bertolucci PizzorussoLiterary Uses of Heraldry in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries - Gerard BraultThe Figure of the King in Medieval German Courtly Literature - Volker HonemannWomen, Property, and the Rise of Courtly Love - Knowledge as Therapy: A Comparison Between the Confessio Amantis of Gower and the Breviari d'Amor of Matfre ErmengaudMatfre Ermengaud - Peter T RickettsFelony and Courtly Love - Glynnis M CroppLa Chanson des Nibelungen, un monde sans Dieu? - Danielle Buschinger'Dieus et amors sont d'un acort': The Theology of Love in the Lai de l'Oiselet - Didactic Strategies in the Ritterspiegel of Johannes Rothe - Henrike LahnemannLacan, Courtly Love and Anamorphosis - Nancy FrelickSongs by Women and Women's Songs: How Useful is the Concept of Register? - Complaints of Women, Complains by Women: Can One Tell Them Apart? - Pat AyersImplications of the Female Poetic Voice in Le Roman de Flamenca - Karen A. GrossweinerFemale enfances: At the Intersection of Romance and Epic - Leslie Zarker MorganQuestions on the Theme of Incest in Courtly Love - Jutta EmingIncest, Identity and Uncourtly Conduct in La Manekine - Carol J HarveyIncest and Death in Marie de France's Deus Amanz - Joan BrumlikIncest and Identity: Family Relationships in Emaré - Yin LiuApproche de la notion de contexte en ancien français - Marielle LignereuxTracking the Anagram: Preparing a Phonetic Blueprint of Troubadour Poetry [with Ineke Hardy] - Elizabeth BrodovitchTracking the Anagram: Preparing a Phonetic Blueprint of Troubadour Poetry [with Elizabeth Brodovitch] - Ineke HardyVariations sur l'espace dans le lai du Chaitivel - Evelyne DattaPerceval's Inner Wanderings: Growing Out of Childhood in Chrétien de Troye's Conte du Graal - Rosemarie DeistTo Love or Not to Love - Nancy CicconePrefigurations of Courtliness in the Bayeux Tapestry - Rouben CholakianDid John of Earley Write the Histoire de Guillaume le Maréchal? - Evelyn A M MullallyThe Loyal and Disloyal Servants of King John - Rosamund S AllenThe Ins and Outs of Court: Guiraut Riquier's Poetics of Ostracism - Michel-André BossyEleonora d'Este and the Heroines of Boiardo's Orlando innamorato: Challenging Gender Stereotypes at the Ferrara CourtCourt - Elizabeth H D Mazzocco'E fer en cortoisie retorner li villan': Roland in Persia in the Entrée d'Espagne - Sara Sturm-MaddoxLes songes animaliers dans le Lancelot en prose: du serpent, du lion et du léopard - Chantal Connochie-BourgneBisclavret to Biclarel via Melion and Bisclaret: the Development of a Misogynous Lai - Amanda HopkinsEmbodying the Rose: An Intertextual Reading of Alain Chartier's La Belle Dame sans mercy - Jane H. M. TaylorLa Sombra de Petrarca en la Poesia Cancioneril - Alicia de Colombí Monguió'Höfische Minne' auf der Meistersängerbühne: Zur Dramatisierung höfisher Liebesromane durch Hans Sachs - Cora DietlElastic - Walter A Blue