Medieval Welsh Literature and its European Contexts

VICTORIA FLOOD is Associate Professor in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. VICTORIA FLOOD is Associate Professor in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. LIZ HERBERT MCAVOY FLSW is Professor Emerita of Medieval Literature at Swansea University and Honorary Senior Research Associate at the University of Bristol. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.

• Introduction: Medieval Welsh Literature and its European Contexts - Victoria Flood 1. Horseplay: Another Look at Rhieingerdd Efa - Catherine McKenna2. Ale-wives in Welsh Poetry c. 1450-c. 1650 - Marged Haycock3. A Forest, a Spring, and a Lion: Nature in Three Romances - Stephen Knight4. Territorial Narrative in the Mabinogi - Daniel F. Melia5. Making War, Love, and Porridge in the Cath Maige Tuired - Joseph Falaky Nagy6. Locating St Brendan in Medieval Wales - Jonathan M. Wooding7. The Lorica of Laidcenn and Early English Glossaries - Claudio Cataldi8. A Romance of England and Wales: 'Logres' in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Victoria Flood9. Female Spirituality as Spectral Presence in the Medieval Welsh March and its Writings - Liz Herbert McAvoy10. Adam Usk's Epitaph(s): Shaping Identity in a Medieval Borderland - Catherine A. M. Clarke11. Borders in Translation: English Resistance to Borderless Empire in Jean d'Arras's Mélusine - Jan Shaw12. The Cely and Johnson Letters and the Languages of Calais, 1347-1558 - Ad Putter13. Shelley's Welsh Bible - Geraint EvansTribute: Helen Fulton and Welsh Medieval Studies - Elaine TreharneBibliography of Professor Helen Fulton's Key PublicationsIndex Tabula Gratulatoria

Medieval Welsh Literature and its European Contexts is a volume which (in words seldom used of a Festschrift) is enticing, exciting, dazzling. It will be long remembered for what those in it declare, especially as regards the twelfth-century Four Branches of the Mabinogi and the work of the Gawain poet.