Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents; Acknowledgments vii; Introduction 1; 1. Gender and the Chivalric Community: The Rise of Arthur's Kingdom 27; 2. Chivalric Performance: Malory's Sir Lancelot 67; 3. Forecast and Recall: Gareth and Tristram 110; 4. Gender, Kinship, and Community: The Quest for the Holy Grail 144; 5. Lancelot, Guenevere, and the Death of Arthur: The Decline and Fall of the Chivalric Community 173; Notes 213; Bibliography 249; Index 267.