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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, Laæamon, 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 106

Medieval German Literature and Beyond

Will Hasty

Adrienne Williams Boyarin, The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: The Polemics of Sameness in 107

Medieval English Anti-Judaism

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, 110

and Pas d’Armes, 1100–1600

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