A Companion to the Gawain–Poet

Introduction - Derek S Brewer Theories of Authorship - Malcolm Andrew Poetic Identity - A C Spearing *** Gender and Sexual Transgression - Jane Gilbert The Historical Background - Christianity for Courtly Subjects: Reflections on the Gawain-Poet - David Aers The Materials of Culture: Landscape and Geography - Ralph W V Elliott The Materials of Culture: Castles - Michael Thompson The Materials of Culture: Feasts - Derek S Brewer The Materials of Culture: Jewels in Pearl - Felicity Riddy The Materials of Culture: The Hunts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anne Rooney The Materials of Culture: Armour I - Michael Lacy The Materials of Culture: Armour II: The Arming Topos as Literature - Derek S Brewer The Materials of Culture: The Colour Green - Derek S Brewer The Materials of Culture: Some Names - Derek S Brewer The Manuscript: British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x - A S G Edwards Meter, Stanza, Vocabulary, Dialect - Hoyt N Duggan Sources I: The Sources of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Elisabeth Brewer Sources II: Scriptural and Devotional Sources - Richard G. Newhauser The Supernatural - Helen Cooper The Gawain-Poet as a Vernacular Theologian - Nicholas Watson Allegory and Symbolism - Priscilla Martin Narrative Form and Insight - Nick Davis Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Order of Shame and the Invention of Embarrassment - Derek Pearsall SIR GAWAIN: SOME LATER VERSIONS The Grene Knight - Gillian E Rogers SIR GAWAIN: SOME LATER VERSIONS Sir Gawain at the fin de siècle: Novel and Opera - Barry A Windeatt SIR GAWAIN: SOME LATER VERSIONS Sir Gawain in Films - David J. Williams Bibliography