Melissa Ridley Elmes is Associate Professor of English at Lindenwood University. Evelyn Meyer is Associate Professor of German at Saint Louis University. ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. JANE GILBERT is Professor of Medieval Literature and Critical Theory at University College London, UK. DAVID F. JOHNSON is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee. K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University.

• Foreword - Jane GilbertAcknowledgements "Introduction" - Melissa Ridley Elmes and Evelyn Meyer Arthurian Ethics before the Pentecostal Oath: In Search of Ethical Origins in Culhwch and Olwen - Melissa Ridley ElmesToo Quickly or Not Quickly Enough, Too Rash and Too Harshly: The Arthurian Court's Lack of Ethics in Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Iwein and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival - Evelyn MeyerThe Ethics of Arthurian Marriage: Husband vs. Wife in Hartmann von Aue's Iwein - Jonathan Seelye MartinArthurian Ethics and Ethical Reading in the Perlesvaus - Joseph DerosierTranslation Praxis and the Ethical Value of Chivalry in the Caligula Brut - Christopher JensenImperial Ambitions and the Ethics of Power: Gender, Race, and the Riddarasögur - Nahir Otaño GraciaLowland Ethics in the Arthur of the Dutch - David F. JohnsonContesting Royal Power: The Ethics of Good Lordship, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the March of Wales - Steven Bruso'As egir as any lyoun': The Ethics of Knight-Horse Relationships in Lybeaus Desconus - Caitlin G. WattMalory's Ethical Dinadan: Moderate Masculinity in a Crisis of Hypermasculine Chivalry - Matthew D. O'DonnellVirtus, Vertues, and Gender: Cultivating a Chivalric Habitus in Thomas Malory's Tale of Sir Gareth - Holly A. CrockerKingly Disguise and (Im)Perception in Three Fifteenth-Century English Romances - Mikayla Hunter'Adventure? What is that?' Arthurian Ethics in/and the Games We Play" - Alexandra Sterling-HellenbrandThe Ethics of a New Edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur - and More Evidence for the Superiority of the Winchester Manuscript - † Fiona Tolhurst and K. S. WhetterThe Ethics of Writing Guinevere in Modern Historical Fiction - Nicole Evelina Afterword - Elizabeth Archibald

A valuable collection for researchers and students working on and/or interested in analyzing the Arthurian legend as consisting of responsive didactic texts capable of serving multiple purposes and ethical imperatives, and who feel approaching those texts through ethical inquiry helps us avoid "misreading or under-reading" Arthurian romances (3).