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Merlin and the Pendragon: King Arthur's Draconarius 3

Linda A. Malcor

'Merlin as Historian in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie 14

Kimberly Bell

The Celtic Wild Man Tradition and Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini: Madness or Contemptus Mundi? 27

Neil Thomas

Exorcising Exclusion: The Figure of Merlin in Hersart de la Villemarqué's Barzaz Breiz 43

Françoise H.M. Le Saux

Merlin and the Ladies of the Lake 55

Anne Berthelot

The Spanish 'Viviens' of El baladro del sabio Merlín and Benjamín Jarnés's Viviana y Merlín: From Femme Fatale to Femme Vitale 82

Barbara D. Miller

The Erotic Merlin 94

Peter H. Goodrich

Rationalizing the Irrational: Merlin and His Prophecies in the Modern Historical Novel 116

Raymond H. Thompson

The Round Table 127

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REVIEWS

Ann W. Astell, Political Allegory in Late Medieval England 131

Anne Schotter

Lawrence M. Clopper, 'Songes of Rechelesnesse': Langland and the Franciscans 132

C. David Benson

Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval: The Story of the Grail 133

Norris J. Lacy

Chrétien de Troyes, Perceval: The Story of the Grail 135

David Staines

Kevin J. Harty, ed., King Arthur on Film: New Essays on Arthurian Cinema 137

Alan Lupack

Ann Hutchinson, ed., Editing Women 139

Sue Ellen Holbrook

Burt Kimmelman, The Poetics of Authorship in the Later Middle Ages. The Emergence of the Modern Literary Persona 140

Albrecht Classen

Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack, King Arthur in America 142

Michael N. Salda

Derek Pearsall, ed., Chaucer to Spenser: An Anthology of Writings in English 145

Kevin Gustafson

Daniel J. Pinti, ed., Writing after Chaucer: Essential Readings in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century 146

Daniel W. Mosser

Earl Jeffrey Richards, ed., Christine de Pizan and Medieval French Lyric 148

Deborah McGrady