Martin B. Shichtman is Professor in the Department of English at Eastern Michigan University. James P. Carley is Associate Professor in the Department of English at York University, Ontario, Canada.

• Valerie M. Lagorio: A TributeMildred Leake Day Introduction: The Social Implications of the Arthurian LegendMartin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley Part I The Middle Ages: Inventing a Lost Past Marie de France's Arthurian Lai : Subtle and PoliticalDavid Chamberlain Lévi-Strauss in Camelot: Interrupted Communication in Arthurian Feudal FictionsDonald Maddox Arthur in Culhwch and Olwen and in the Romances of Chrétien de TroyesArmel Diverres The Knight as Reader of Arthurian RomanceElspeth Kennedy The Stanzaic Morte Arthur : The Adaptation of a French Romance for an English AudienceEdward Donald Kennedy Was Merlin a Ghibelline? Arthurian Propaganda at the Court of Frederick IIDonald L. Hoffman A Grave Event: Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea's BonesJames P. Carley The Speaking Knight: Sir Gawain and Other AnimalsFelicity 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 MaloryMaureen Fries Part II Reinventing the Middle Ages Spenser for Hire: Arthurian History as Cultural Capital in The Faerie QueeneLaurie 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 LegendDebra N. Mancoff The Snake in the Woodpile: Tennyson's Vivien as Victorian ProstituteRebecca Umland Feminism, Homosexuality, and Homophobia in The Mists of AvalonJames Noble Camelot 3000 and the Future of ArthurCharles T. Wood Index

"This book's main strength is its diversity. There is an astonishing amount of territory covered here. The methodological diversity is especially notable, with many of the essays leaning toward contemporary criticism." — Julian Wasserman, Loyola University

Martin B. Shichtman is Professor in the Department of English at Eastern Michigan University. James P. Carley is Associate Professor in the Department of English at York University, Ontario, Canada.

• Valerie M. Lagorio: A TributeMildred Leake Day Introduction: The Social Implications of the Arthurian LegendMartin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley Part I The Middle Ages: Inventing a Lost Past Marie de France's Arthurian Lai : Subtle and PoliticalDavid Chamberlain Lévi-Strauss in Camelot: Interrupted Communication in Arthurian Feudal FictionsDonald Maddox Arthur in Culhwch and Olwen and in the Romances of Chrétien de TroyesArmel Diverres The Knight as Reader of Arthurian RomanceElspeth Kennedy The Stanzaic Morte Arthur : The Adaptation of a French Romance for an English AudienceEdward Donald Kennedy Was Merlin a Ghibelline? Arthurian Propaganda at the Court of Frederick IIDonald L. Hoffman A Grave Event: Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea's BonesJames P. Carley The Speaking Knight: Sir Gawain and Other AnimalsFelicity 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 MaloryMaureen Fries Part II Reinventing the Middle Ages Spenser for Hire: Arthurian History as Cultural Capital in The Faerie QueeneLaurie 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 LegendDebra N. Mancoff The Snake in the Woodpile: Tennyson's Vivien as Victorian ProstituteRebecca Umland Feminism, Homosexuality, and Homophobia in The Mists of AvalonJames Noble Camelot 3000 and the Future of ArthurCharles T. Wood Index

"This book's main strength is its diversity. There is an astonishing amount of territory covered here. The methodological diversity is especially notable, with many of the essays leaning toward contemporary criticism." — Julian Wasserman, Loyola University

Martin B. Shichtman is Professor in the Department of English at Eastern Michigan University. James P. Carley is Associate Professor in the Department of English at York University, Ontario, Canada.

• Valerie M. Lagorio: A TributeMildred Leake Day Introduction: The Social Implications of the Arthurian LegendMartin B. Shichtman and James P. Carley Part I The Middle Ages: Inventing a Lost Past Marie de France's Arthurian Lai : Subtle and PoliticalDavid Chamberlain Lévi-Strauss in Camelot: Interrupted Communication in Arthurian Feudal FictionsDonald Maddox Arthur in Culhwch and Olwen and in the Romances of Chrétien de TroyesArmel Diverres The Knight as Reader of Arthurian RomanceElspeth Kennedy The Stanzaic Morte Arthur : The Adaptation of a French Romance for an English AudienceEdward Donald Kennedy Was Merlin a Ghibelline? Arthurian Propaganda at the Court of Frederick IIDonald L. Hoffman A Grave Event: Henry V, Glastonbury Abbey, and Joseph of Arimathea's BonesJames P. Carley The Speaking Knight: Sir Gawain and Other AnimalsFelicity 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 MaloryMaureen Fries Part II Reinventing the Middle Ages Spenser for Hire: Arthurian History as Cultural Capital in The Faerie QueeneLaurie 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 LegendDebra N. Mancoff The Snake in the Woodpile: Tennyson's Vivien as Victorian ProstituteRebecca Umland Feminism, Homosexuality, and Homophobia in The Mists of AvalonJames Noble Camelot 3000 and the Future of ArthurCharles T. Wood Index

"This book's main strength is its diversity. There is an astonishing amount of territory covered here. The methodological diversity is especially notable, with many of the essays leaning toward contemporary criticism." — Julian Wasserman, Loyola University