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Part 1 Contexts for courtliness: poets and prince in medieval Ireland;Court poets and historians in late-medieval Connaught; courtly acculturationin the "Lais" and "Fables" of Marie de France; locating the Court -socio-cultural exchange in Jean Renart's "L'Escoufle"; negativeself-promotion - the troubadour "Sirventes Joglaresc"; odd man out - Villonat Court; animating Court satire. Part 2 Fashioning history and romance: lafin des "Chroniques" de Froissart et le tragique de la cour; domesticatingdiversity - female founders in medieval genealogical literature and "La Fillede Comte de Pontieu"; "Dame Custance le Gentil" - Gaimar's portrait of a ladyand her books; alterity and subjectivity in the "Roman de Melusine";Passelion, Marc l'Essilie et l'ideal courtois; the political songs in thechronicles of Pierre de Langtoft and Robert Mannying; romance after Bosworth.Part 3 Negotiating a courtly voice: courtliness in some 14th-century Englishpastourelles; "Amor" in Marie de France's "Equitan" and "Fresne" - thefailure of the courtly ideal; secondary characters in "Equitan" and "Eliduc";the optimistic love-poet - Philippe de Beaumanoir; the lady speaks - thetransformation of French courtly poetry in the 14th and 15th centuries; niceyoung girls and wicked old witches - the "rightful age" of women in MiddleEnglish verse; readers, writers and lovers in "Grimalte y Gradissa"; ShotaRustaveli and the structure of courtly love. Part 4 Texts and readers: theTournai "Rose" as a secular and a sacred Epithalamium; the "Gesta HenriciQuinti" and the Bedford psalter-hours; medieval equivalents of"quote-unquote" - the presentation of spoken words in courtly romance;courtly romances in the Privy Wardrobe; John Shirley and the emulation ofcourtly culture; Richard Hill - a London compiler. Part 5 The limits ofcourtliness: our food, foreign foods - food as a cultural de-limiter in theMiddle Ages; courtly cooking "all'Italiana" - gastronomical approaches tomedieval Italian literature; the outsider at court - or, what is so strangeabout the stranger?; "pseudo"-courtly elements in a canonical epic; theprodigal knight, the hungry mother and the triple murder - mirrors andmarvels in the "Dolopathos" dog story; une recluse fort (peu) courtoise -destin d'une anecdote dans le "Roman des Sept Sages"; courtly discourse andfolklore in "La Manekine"; the first-person narrator in Middle-Dutch"fabliaux"; the diabolic hero in medieval French narrative - "Trubert" and"Wistasse le Moine".