Contents
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Ill-speaking Woman and the Marriageable Lady
1. I - Lyonet and Lyonesse
1. II - Maledysaunte
1. III - Alys and Morgan's Cousin
1. IV - The Damsels of Arroy, and Nynyve and Ettarde
2. Magical and Miraculous Women
2. I - Morgan le Fay
2. II - Nynyve
2. III - Percival's Sister
2. IV - A Note on the Grail Demons
3. 'Whyle She Might Be Suffirde': Ladies In (Unrequited) Love
3. I - Lust and Treason: Women as Seductresses and Decoys in 'The Tale of Sir Launcelot du Lake'
3. II - Malory's Elaynes
Elayne of Corbyn
Elayne of Ascolat
4. True Lovers and Adulterous Queens
4. I - Generous Love in Malory's Episode of the Knight of the Cart
4. II - Displacement Anxiety: Lancelot and Guinevere in the final stages of Le Morte Darthur
4. III - Isode
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