Table of Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Dhira B. Mahoney: A Tribute Georiana Donavin Anita Obermeier 1
Prologues and Pictures
Exemplars of Chivalry: Rhetoric and Ethics in Middle English Romance Ann Dobyns 17
Jans der Enikel's Prologue as a Guide to Textual Multiplicity Maria Dobozy 33
Gifts and Givers that Keep on Giving: Pictured Presentations in Early Medieval Manuscripts Corine Schleif 51
Women and Rhetoric
The Light of the Virgin Muse in John Lydgate's Life of Our Lady Georgiana Donavin 75
Sisters under the Skin: Margery Kempe and Christine de Pizan Elizabeth Archibald 91
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing: Margery Kempe as Underground Preacher Rosalynn Voaden 109
Lyric, Song, and Audience
Rhetoric and Reception: Guillaume de Machaut's 'Je Maudi' Phyllis R. Brown 125
'Maken Melodye': The Quality of Song in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales Christina Francis 149
Enacting Liturgy: Estote fortes in the Croxton Play of the Sacrament John Damon 171
Arthurian Literature: Composition and Production
The Rhetoric of Symbolism: The Grail of Fertility and Sterility Anita Obermeier 193
Arnold Fanck's 1926 Film Der Heilige Berg and the Nazi Quest for the Holy Grail Kevin J.Harty 223
Folklore Motifs and Diminishing Narrative Time as a Method of Coherence in Malory's Morte Darthur Judith Lanzendorfer 235
Malory's Intratexts Alan Lupack 249
Index 269
Tabula Gratulatoria 279