New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.

Kathryn A. Duys, Elizabeth Emery, Laurie Postlewate

Introduction
'Of Aunters They Began to Tell': Informal Story in Medieval England and Modern America - Linda Marie Zaerr
The Storyteller's Verbal Jonglerie in 'Renart jongleur' - Marilyn Lawrence
Plusurs en ai oïz conter: Performance and the Dramatic Poetics of Voice in the Lais of Marie de France - Simonetta Cochis
Who Tells the Stories of Poetry? Villon and his Readers - Nancy Freeman Regalado
The Audience in the Story: Novices Respond to History in Gautier de Coinci's Chasteé as nonains - Kathryn A. Duys
Effet de parlé and Effet d'écrit: The Authorial Strategies of Medieval French Historians - Cristian Bratu
Or, Entendez!: Jacques Tahureau and the Staging of the Storytelling Scene - Kathleen A. Loysen
Telling the Story of the Christ Child: Text and Image in Two Fourteenth-Century Manuscripts - Maureen Boulton
Authorizing the Story: Guillaume de Machaut as Doctor of Love - Joyce Coleman
Retelling the Story: Intertextuality, Sacred and Profane, in the Late Roman Legend of St Eugenia - E. Gordon Whatley
Ruodlieb and Romance in Latin: Audience and Authorship - Elizabeth Archibald
Turner a pru: Conversion and Translation in the Vie de seint Clement - Laurie Postlewate
Stories for the King: Narration and Authority in the 'Crusade Compilation' of Philippe VI of France (London, British Library, Royal 19.D.i) - Mark Cruse
Le Berceau de la littérature française: Medieval Literature as Storytelling in Nineteenth-Century France - Elizabeth Emery
Retelling the Old Story - Samuel N. Rosenberg