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Tables of Contents for Telling Tales
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Acknowledgements
IX
1. INTRODUCTION Texts and Shadows: Traces, Narratives, and Folklore
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20
Francesca Canade's Sautman
Diana Conchado
Giuseppe Carlo Di Scipio
Part I. SOURCES and TRADITIONS
21
58
2. Problems in Contextualizing Oral Circulation of Early Medieval Saints' Legends
21
16
JOHN MCNAMARA
3. The Order of Monsters: Monster Lore and Medieval Narrative Traditions
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22
JEFFREY JEROME COHEN
4. Myth and Text in the Middle Ages: Folklore as Literary "Source"
59
20
PHILIPPE WALTER
Part II. TEXTUAL VARIATIONS
79
100
5. Ambiguity and Appropriation: The Story of Judith in Medieval Narrative and Iconographic Traditions
79
22
LESLIE ABEND CALLAHAN
6. Infernal Visions and Border Conflicts: Two Tales from the Fifteenth-Century Recull de eximplis e miracles
101
20
JACQUES BERLIOZ
7. Ambiguity in the Battle of Porr and Hrungnir
121
16
J. MICHAEL STITT
8. Sanguine Inscriptions: Mythic and Literary Aspects of a Motif in Chretien de Troyes's Conte du Gral
137
18
MADELEINE JEAY
9. Framed (for) Murder: The Corpse Killed Five Times in the Thousand Nights and a Night
155
24
BONNIE D. IRWIN
PART III. HAGIOGRAPHY
179
52
10. Saints, Legends, and Charms
173
16
EDINA BOZOKY
11. Saint Paul and Popular Traditions
189
20
GIUSEPPE CARLO DI SCIPIO
12. The Middle-Aged Life of Adamnan
209
22
JOSEPH FALAKY NAGY
Part IV: HISTORICAL CONTEXTS
231
66
13. A Troubled History: Folklore and Competing Texts in Baudouin de Sebourc, a Fourteenth-Century Chanson de Geste
231
18
FRANCESCA CANADE SAUTMAN
14. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Myth in Its Time
249
20
CARL LINDAHL
15. From "Little Red Riding Hood" to the "Beast of Gevaudan": The Tale in the Long Term Continuum
269
28
CATHERINE VELAY-VALLANTIN
Select Bibliography
297
12
Contributors
309
4
Index
313