Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-x

List of Illustrations

pp xi-xii

List of Contributors

pp xiii-xiv

List of Abbreviations

pp xv-xvi

Introduction

pp 1-12

Part I - Subjectivity in Troubadour Poetry

pp 13-14

Introduction

pp 15-18

Third Gender Solace

pp 19-33

Troubadour Selves under Debate

pp 34-48

‘Je Tiens ma Personne Morte’: Subjectivity in Fifteenth-Century Courtly Poetry

pp 49-64

Part II - The ‘Chansons de geste’ in the Age of Romance: Political Fictions

pp 65-66

Introduction

pp 67-70

‘He wishes that everyone were leprous like him’: Infectious Counternarratives in Ami et Amile

pp 71-84

Feminism-plus: Sarah Kay’s The ‘Chansons de geste’ in the Age of Romance: Political Fictions and the ‘Roman de’ Waldef

pp 85-98

Connected Literature: Chansons de geste, Burgundian livres de gestes, and the Writing of Literary Theory Today

pp 99-112

Part III - Courtly Contradictions: The Emergence of the Literary Object in the Twelfth Century

pp 113-114

Introduction

pp 115-118

Finding Contradiction in Guiraut Riquier

pp 119-149

At the Bleeding Edge of Courtly Love

pp 150-165

Logic, Meaning, and Imagination

pp 166-178

Part IV - The Place of Thought: The Complexity of One in French Didactic Literature

pp 179-180

Introduction

pp 181-184

Places of Thought: Environment, Perception, and Textual Identity in Medieval Vernacular Manuscripts

pp 185-199

The Disembodied Tongue; or, The Place of the Book in the Livre de la Cité des Dames

pp 200-212

The Place of Pain: Confronting the Trauma and Complexity of Kingship in the Political Dream Narrative

pp 213-226

Part V - Parrots and Nightingales: Troubadour Quotations and the Development of European Poetry

pp 227-228

Introduction

pp 229-232

Quoting Lyrics and Subjectivities in the Chastelaine de Vergy

pp 233-249