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Introduction: Modern and Post-Modern Arthurian Literature 3

John Matthews

Arthur Without Fantasy: Dark Age Britain in Recent Historical Fiction 5

Dan Nastali

Queens, Ladies, and Saints: Arthurian Women in Contemporary Short Fiction 23

Ann F. Howey

Creating King Arthur's Children: A Trend in Modern Fiction 39

Tyler R. Tichelaar

'A land shining with goodness': Magic and Religion in Stephen R. Lawhead's Taliesin, Merlin, and Arthur 57

John J. Doherty

Camelot 3000 and Beyond: An Annotated Listing of Arthurian Comic Books Published in the United States c. 1980-1998 67

Michael Torregrossa

Marion Zimmer Bradley and The Mists of Avalon 110

Diana L. Paxson

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The Round Table: Teaching King Arthur At Harvard

Teaching 'The Story of Arthur' 127

Derek Pearsall

The Once and Future Course: Teaching the Arthurian Legend 130

Bernard Lumpkin

Jousting in the Classroom: On Teaching Malory 133

Scott Hess

'It lives dispersedly in many hands, And every minstrel sings it differently': Tennyson and the Comparative Approach to 'The Story of Arthur' 138

Ayanna T. Thompson

Can we talk about 'Multiple Versions of the Same Thing' in a meaningful way? 141

Jane Tolmie

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REVIEWS

James Muldoon, ed., Varieties of Religious Conversion in the Middle Ages. 144

Steven F. Kruger

Constance Brittain Bouchard, 'Strong of Body, Brave and Noble': Chivalry and Society in Medieval France. 146

Howell Chickering

Jacqueline De Weever, Sheba's Daughters. Whitening and Demonizing the Saracen Woman in Medieval French Epic. 149

Maureen Boulton

Elizabeth B. Keiser, Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in Cleanness and Its Contexts. 150

Linda Georgianna

Elizabeth B. Keiser, Courtly Desire and Medieval Homophobia: The Legitimation of Sexual Pleasure in Cleanness and Its Contexts. 152

David Townsend

Anthony Emery, Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300-1500. 154

P.J.C. Field

A.J. Minnis, Charlotte C. Morse, and Thorlac Turville-Petre, eds., Essays on Ricardian Literature in Honour of J.A. Burrow. 155

David R. Carlson

Derek Pearsall, ed., Chaucer to Spenser, An Anthology. 157

Steven J. Patterson

Anna Roberts, ed., Violence Against Women in Medieval Texts. 159

Maud Burnett McInerney

Stephen Wildman and John Christian (with essays by Alan Crawford and Laurence Des Cars), Edward Burne-Jones: Victorian Artist-Dreamer 160

Debra N. Mancoff

Bernard Cornwell, The Winter King: A Novel of Athur, Enemy of God: A Novel of Arthur, Excalibur: A Novel of Arthur 162

Raymond H. Thompson

The Mighty. Peter Chelsom, dir. 165

Bert Olton

A Knight in Camelot. Roger Young, dir. 167

Barbara Tepa Lupack