D. Thomas Hanks Jr. is a Professor in the English department at Baylor University. His research interests include Medieval English literature, especially the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and of Sir Thomas Malory. Janet Jesmok retired from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2001, where she was Assistant Director of the Honors Program and taught Honors courses in medieval and Arthurian literature.

• Prefatory NoteIntroduction"All maner of good love comyth of God": Malory, God’s Grace, and Noble Love by D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.Adulterated Love: The Tragedy of Malory's Lancelot and Guinevere by Corey OlsenEndless Virtue and Trinitarian Prayer in Lancelot's Healing of Urry by Sue Ellen HolbrookChristian Rituals in Malory: The Evidence of Funerals by Karen CherewatukRhetoric, Ritual, and Religious Impulse in Malory's Book 8 by Janet JesmokChristianity and Social Instability: Malory's Galahad, Palomides, and Lancelot by Dorsey ArmstrongSlouching towards Bethlehem: Secularized Salvation in Le Morte Darthur by Fiona TolhurstMalory's Secular Arthuriad by K. S. Whetter"In my harte I am [not] crystynde": What Can Malory Offer the Nonreligious Reader? by Felicia Nimue AckermanBibliographyContributorsIndex