To me, methought, who waited with a crowd,
There came a bark that, blowing forward, bore
King Arthur, like a modern gentleman
Of stateliest port; and all the people cried,
"Arthur is come again: he cannot die."

"Morte d'Arthur" (1842)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Friday, April 1, 2022

Out Now: Arthuriana Winter 2021

Now available: Arthuriana for Winter 2021.

Full details at the journal's new website: https://www.arthuriana.com/314


Table of Contents
(31.4)

Is Ugliness Only Skin Deep?: Middle English Gawain Romances and the ‘Wife of Bath’s Tale’ 3

Glenn A. Steinberg



Another Version of the Truth: Treachery, Testimony, and Triumph in the Old French Lay of Tyolet 29

Tamara Bentley Caudill



‘But That’s Another Story’: Wace, La3amon, and the Early Anonymous Old French Verse Bruts 47

Jean Blacker



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THE ROUND TABLE:

News and Notes From the North American Branch 103

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REVIEWS

Bettina Bildhauer, Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond 106

Will Hasty



Adrienne Williams Boyarin, The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism 107

Heather Blurton



Nigel Harris, The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First Century Perspectives 108

Karl Steel



Alan V. Murray and Karen Watts, eds., The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts, and Pas d’Armes, 1100–1600 110

Jo Conde De Lindquist



Karl Steel, How Not to Make a Human: Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters 113

Jamie C. Fumo



Arvind Thomas, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages 115

Laura Godfrey



Diane Watt, Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100 116

Beth Whalley

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