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Contents Introduction: Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern Literature: Discourse, Communication, and Social Interaction 1 Albrecht Classen Chapter 1 The Knight, the Woman, and the Historian: Georges Duby and Courtly Love 43 Virginie Greene Chapter 2 Transgressive Troubadours and Lawless Lovers? Matfre Ermengaud's Breviari d'Amor as a Courtly apologia 65 Michelle Bolduc Chapter 3 Christian Love or Pagan Transgression? Marriage and Conversion in Floire et Blancheflor 85 Lynn Shutters Chapter 4 "Femmes et tere": Marie de France and the Discourses of "Lanval" 109 Karen K. Jambeck Chapter 5 Colonial Possessions: Wales and the Anglo-Norman Imaginary in the Lais of Marie de France 147 Sharon Kinoshita Chapter 6 Erec's Uxoriousness 163 James A. Rushing Chapter 7 "L'Auteur est mort, vive l'auteur": Love in Poetry and Fiction 181 Ulrich Müller Chapter 8 Accusations of Gay and Straight Sexual Transgression in the Roman de la Violette 189 Suzanne Kocher Chapter 9 Littérature courtoise ou le libertinage avant la lettre. D'après les Chansons de Guillaume de Poitiers et Joufroi, roman du XIIIe siècle 211 Anna Kuku?ka-Wojtasik Chapter 10 Love, Marriage, and Transgression in Joufroi de Poitiers: A Case of Literary Anarchism? 225 Penny Simons Chapter 11 Transgressive Fathers in Sir Eglamour of Artois and Torrent of Portyngale 243 Joanne Charbonneau Chapter 12 Chaucer's Vows and How They Break: Transgression in The Manciple's Tale 267 Jean E. Jost Chapter 13 Love, Marriage, and Sexual Transgressions in Heinrich Kaufringer's Verse Narratives (ca. 1400) 289 Albrecht Classen Chapter 14 "Buon cavallo e mal cavallo vuole sprone, e buona femina e mala femina vuol bastone": Medieval Cultural Fictions of Wife-Battering 313 Louise O. Vasv-ri Chapter 15 Constructing New Women in Early Modern English Literature 337 Marilyn Sandidge Chapter 16 True Stories and Alternative Discourses: The Game of Love in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron 351 Elizabeth C. Zegura Index 369
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
Literature, Modern -- 15th and 16th centuries -- History and criticism.
Love in literature.
Marriage in literature.
Sex in literature.