Curriculum vitae
Updated August  2008

NORRIS J. LACY

Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies

Pennsylvania State University

Department of French and Francophone Studies
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802-6203

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EDUCATION

Murray State University, 1958-62; A.B. with Highest Honors, 1962 (French major, German and philosophy minors).

Middlebury College, 1962 (summer).

Indiana University, 1962-66; M.A., 1963; Ph.D., 1967 (medieval French literature; minors in romance philology, medieval Italian literature).

Centre d'Études Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale, Poitiers, France, 1972-73 (postdoctoral study of medieval philosophy and patristic literature).

FULL-TIME ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Indiana University, Lecturer in French, 1965-66.

University of Kansas, 1966-88: Acting Assistant Professor of French, 1966-67; Assistant Professor, 1967-70; Associate Professor, 1970-75; Professor, 1975-88. Chair, Department of French and Italian, 1978-84, 1985-87.

UCLA, Visiting Associate Professor of French, 1975-76.

Washington University in St. Louis, 1988-98: Professor of French, 1988-91; Professor of French and Comparative Literature, 1991-98. Chair, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, 1991-97.

Pennsylvania State University, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French, 1998- ; Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies, 2002- .

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FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

American Philosophical Society Research Grant, 1969.

Watkins Faculty Fellowship, University of Kansas, 1969.

Faculty Research Grants, University of Kansas, annually 1970-73, 1975-87 (also 1988, declined).

American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grants, 1972, 1981, 1987.

American Council of Learned Societies Postdoctoral Study Fellowship, 1972-73.

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1975.

American Council of Learned Societies Senior Fellowship, 1985.

National Endowment for the Humanities Grant, 1989-91. Grant awarded to a team of translators directed by me.

Faculty Research Grants, Washington University, 1991, 1996.

SELECTED HONORS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Decorated by the French Government, in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms), Chevalier (Knight) July 1988; promoted to Officier (Officer), October 2003.

Presented with Festschrift, May 2000: "Por le soie amisté": Essays in Honor of Norris J. Lacy , ed. Keith Busby and Catherine M. Jones. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000. Pp. xxxiv + 552.

Presented with Lagniappe Festschrift, in Honor of Norris J. Lacy, ed. Kristin L. Burr and David S. King, Special number of Arthuriana, 18.2 (2008). [Articles by my past students from Washington University and Penn State.]

International Arthurian Society: International President, 1984-87; Honorary International President, 1987- (elected for life). North American Branch: President, 1991-94; previously, Secretary-Treasurer, 1979-84; member of Executive and Advisory Committee, 1975-84, 1994-97.

Additional Offices: President, Midwest Modern Language Association, 1994-95 (Vice-President, 1993-94); President, Mid-America Medieval Association, 1980-81.

Winner of the South Atlantic Review Essay Prize (for 2000) for "From Medieval to Post-Modern: The Arthurian Quest in France," November 2000.

Prize established by Arthuriana in my honor: The Norris J. Lacy Prize for Editorial Excellence (May 2008).

Service to profession (selected): Modern Language Association Commission on Professional Employment (1995-98); selection committee, MLA Prize for Distinguished Editions (1999-2001; chair, 2001); chair, selection committee for outstanding article published annually in Arthuriana (1996-98); American Association of Teachers of French committee to evaluate and advise on association publications (1997-98).

Editorships and Boards:


Consultant on several projects for television, radio, or publishing: Arts & Entertainment Network, Learning Channel, Discovery Channel, Story House Productions (Berlin), National Geographic, Adam Matthew Publishing, etc. Consultant (and participant, with on-screen appearances) for two one-hour documentaries: " Le Morte d'Arthur : Legend of the King," a Cronkite-Ward / Universe Group Production (for "The Great Books" series; shown on The Learning Channel beginning September 1993 and later on The Discovery Channel; released in Japan, dubbed into Japanese, in 1996); "The Quest for the Holy Grail," a FilmRoos Production for the A&E series "Ancient Mysteries" (August 1997; retitled "The Holy Grail" and with new narration, it became part of The History Channel's series "In Search of History" in December 1997). Featured on NewsTalk (Dublin, Ireland), a radio program on "Holy Grail" (July 2008); various other radio and television interviews.

Biographical Listings in current or past editions of Who's Who in America, Directory of American Scholars , International Who's Who of Education , Répertoire international des médiévistes , Dictionary of International Biography , Notable Americans , Men of Achievement , Who's Who in the Midwest , Who's Who in American Education , Personalities of America , International Authors and Writers Who's Who , Directory of Distinguished Americans , 2000 Distinguished Scholars of the Twentieth Century , etc.

Memberships: Medieval Academy of America, International Arthurian Society, American Association of Teachers of French, Société Rencesvals, International Courtly Literature Society, Modern Language Association, South Atlantic Modern Language Association, South Central Modern Language Association, Southeastern Medieval Association, Medieval Association of the Midwest.

Miscellaneous: sole or principal organizer of five conferences; organizer and/or chair of sessions in some sixty others; evaluator of numerous grant applications for the Guggenheim Foundation, The Canada Council, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, Rockefeller Foundation, etc.; reader for some twenty-five university and private presses and the same number of journals; external evaluator for some seventy-five tenure and/or promotion cases at other universities and colleges.

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TEACHING AND RELATED ACTIVITIES

Undergraduate courses at all levels: elementary and intermediate French; French composition, conversation, civilization, history, phonetics, stylistics, and introduction to literature; medieval and Renaissance literature, Issues of Gender in Medieval Literature, Medieval Lyric, The Literature of Courtly Love, Arthurian Romance, Arthurian Film; surveys of the Arthurian legend through history, archaeology, medieval and modern literature, visual arts, music, film, and popular culture.

Graduate courses and seminars: French Arthurian Literature, From Arthur to the Grail, Chansons de geste, Medieval Romance, Fabliaux, Literature of Courtly Love, Medieval Lyric, François Villon, Problems of Genre in Medieval Literature, The Medieval Literary Arts, Medieval Paris, Textual Criticism and Editing, Old French, History of the French Language, Introduction to Graduate Studies, Literary Criticism, Renaissance Literature, and Medieval Comedy, Parody, and Irony. My Arthurian seminars, in French and Comparative Literature, have treated major medieval authors, texts, and themes (e.g., Chrétien de Troyes, the Vulgate Cycle, Grail Literature, Quests and Tests in Arthurian Literature).

Direction of Summer Study-Abroad Programs for University of Kansas: Paris (Assistant Director, 1967), Geneva (Director, 1968), Paris (Director, 1971).

Director of Graduate Studies in French for ten years (at two universities); extensive undergraduate (freshman and major) and graduate advising.

Director of nineteen Ph.D. dissertations and co-director of three others; one currently in progress. Most on medieval French literature, but one on comparative medieval literature (French and Spanish), one on eighteenth-century French novel; three (two of them co-directed) on Renaissance French literature, one co-directed on Colonial Latin American literature.

ACADEMIC ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICE: extensive, ranging from service on numerous college-wide or university-wide committees (promotion and tenure, research, graduate council, etc.) to assistant or associate chair (seven years, University of Kansas) and to department chair (fourteen years: eight at University of Kansas, six at Washington University). For service to the profession at large, see above.

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RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION

I. BOOKS AND CRITICAL EDITIONS

26 Chansons d'amour de la Renaissance . Critical edition. Paris: Klincksieck; Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1975. Pp. 111.

The Craft of Chrétien de Troyes: An Essay on Narrative Art. Davis Medieval Texts and Studies, No. 3. Leiden: Brill, 1980. Pp. ix + 136.

L'Istoyre de Jehan Coquault: A Literary Forgery. Critical edition. York, SC: French Literature Publications, 1983. Pp. ix + 85.

The Arthurian Handbook, with Geoffrey Ashe. New York: Garland, 1988. Pp. xxxiv + 455. [Selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book of 1987-88.] Second edition, revised, with Geoffrey Ashe and Debra N. Mancoff, 1997; pp. xlv + 409.

The Romance of Tristran, by Béroul. Critical edition with parallel translation. Garland Library of Medieval Literature, No. 36. New York: Garland Publishing, 1989. Pp. xxv + 236. Revised version included in Early French Tristan Poems. [See below, Section II.]

The Vows of the Heron (Les Voeux du heron): A Middle French Vowing Poem. Critical edition (with John L. Grigsby) and parallel translation. Garland Library of Medieval Literature, No. 86. New York: Garland, 1992. Pp. xiii + 100.

Reading Fabliaux. New York: Garland, 1993. Pp. xvi + 169. Second edition, Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 1999. Pp. xxiii + 169.

A Camelot Triptych. Fiction. Rochester, NY: Round Table Publications, 1997. Pp. 80. [One section, The Mordred Manuscript , previously published by Round Table Publications, 1994.]

In progress: The Prose Yvain. Critical edition of unpublished French romance (thirteenth century).

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II. EDITED VOLUMES

A Medieval French Miscellany: Papers of the 1970 Kansas Conference on Medieval French Literature . University of Kansas Humanistic Series, No. 42. Lawrence, KS, 1972. Pp. 88.

From Camelot to Joyous Guard: The Old French "La Mort le Roi Artu," trans. J.N. Carman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1974. Pp. xxii + 173.

Essays in Early French Literature Presented to Barbara M. Craig, with Jerry C. Nash. York, SC: French Literature Publications, 1982. Pp. xiii + 186.

The Arthurian Encyclopedia. New York: Garland, 1986. Pp. xxxvii + 649. [Selected by the History Book Club and the Science Fiction Book Club.] Paperback editions published in U.S. by Peter Bedrick Books (New York), 1987, and in Britain by Boydell and Brewer (Woodbridge, Suffolk), 1988.

Also, The New Arthurian Encyclopedia ; expanded and revised. New York: Garland, 1991. Pp. xxxix + 577. Published in Britain by St. James Press, 1993. Book club edition published by Doubleday.

And The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Updated Edition. New York: Garland, 1996. Pp. xxxix + 615. [Reissue of The New Arthurian Encyclopedia , with supplement for years 1990-95.] An edition is also published by the Science Fiction Book Club.

The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes , with Douglas Kelly and Keith Busby. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987, 1988. Pp. 342, 306.

The Poetics of Love in the Middle Ages , with Moshé Lazar. Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press, 1989. Pp. x + 281.

Continuations: Essays on Medieval French Literature and Language in Honor of John L. Grigsby , with Gloria Torrini-Roblin. Birmingham, AL: Summa, 1989. Pp. xxviii + 328.

Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation. 5 vols. New York: Garland, 1993-96. [Vol. I, 1993, pp. xxxiii + 424; vol. II, 1993, pp. x + 332; vol. III, 1995, pp. x + 338; vol. IV, 1995, pp. xi + 276; vol. V, 1996, pp. xii + 438. [I directed the work of nine translators, translated La Mort Artu (IV, 91-160), edited the full text, and provided chapter summaries of all the material (V, 315-80).]

Conjunctures: Medieval Studies in Honor of Douglas Kelly, with Keith Busby. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994. Pp. xxi + 596.

Medieval Arthurian Literature: A Guide to Recent Research. New York: Garland, 1996. Pp. xii + 471.

Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature. New York: Garland, 1996. Pp. ix + 239.

Early French Tristan Poems. 2 vols. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1998. Pp. 315, 287. Issued in electronic form by "netLibrary," 2000. [Includes a revised version of my critical edition and facing translation of Béroul's Tristran , I, 3-216.]

The Lancelot-Grail Reader. New York: Garland, 2000. Pp. xviii + 432.

Perceval/Parzival: A Casebook, with Arthur Groos. New York: Routledge, 2002. Pp. viii + 312.

A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes , with Joan Tasker Grimbert. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005. Pp. xiv + 242. Paperback edition forthcoming in 2008.

The Fortunes of King Arthur. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005. Pp. xvi + 231.

A History of Arthurian Scholarship . Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2006. Pp. xiv + 285.

The Old French Fabliaux: Essays on Comedy and Context, with K. Burr and J. Moran. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2007.

The Grail, the Quest, and the World of Arthur. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. [Forthcoming, fall 2008.]

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III. EDITED SPECIAL ISSUES OF JOURNALS

The Comic Spirit in Medieval France . Special issue of L'Esprit Créateur , 16.1 (1976).

The Grail and the Quest. Special issue of Arthuriana, 8.1 (1998).

Chrétien de Troyes's Cligés. Special issue of Arthuriana, 18.3 (2008).

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IV. ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, AND NOTES

"Thematic Analogues in Erec," L'Esprit Créateur, 9.4 (1969), 267-74.

"Organic Structure of Yvain's Expiation," Romanic Review, 41.2 (1970), 79-84.

"Yvain's Evolution and the Role of the Lion," Romance Notes, 12.1 (1970), 198-202.

"Form and Pattern in Cligés ," Orbis Litterarum, 25.4 (1970), 307-13.

"A Newly Discovered Manuscript of French Lyrics," Manuscripta, 15 (1971), 27-29.

"Irony and Distance in Béroul's Tristan," French Review, 45, Special Issue No. 3 (1971), 21-29.

"Narrative Point of View and the Problem of Erec's Motivation," Kentucky Romance Quarterly , 18.4 (1971), 355-62.

"Roland at Roncevaux: the Poet's Visual Art," Rocky Mountain MLA Bulletin, 26.1 (1972), 3-8.

"Movement and Montage in Villon's Testament ," in A Medieval French Miscellany, pp. 79-88. [See above, Section II.]

"Thematic Structure in the Charrette ," L'Esprit Créateur, 12.1 (1972), 13-18.

"Villon in his World: the View and Point of View of the Testament," in Authors and Their Centuries , ed. P. Crant. University of South Carolina French Literature Series, vol. I. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1973, pp. 11-21.

"Types of Aesthetic Distance in the Fabliaux," in Humor in the Fabliaux, ed. T. Cooke and B. Honeycutt. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1974, pp. 107-17.

"Spatial Form in Medieval Romance," in Approaches to Medieval Romance, ed. P. Haidu ( Yale French Studies , No. 51, 1974), 160-69.

[With P. Cucchi] "La Tradition manuscrite des Cent Nouvelles de Laurent de Premierfait," Le Moyen Age , 80.3-4 (1974), 483-502.

"The Fabliaux and Comic Logic," L'Esprit Créateur, 16.1 (1976), 39-45. [See Section III.]

"Simile in 'La Mort du loup,'" Language Quarterly, 15 (1976), 59-60.

"The Form of the Brut's Arthurian Sequence," in Jean Misrahi Memorial Volume , ed. H. Runte et al . Columbia, S.C.: French Literature Publ., 1977, pp. 150-58.

"Spatial Form and the Mort Artu ," Symposium, 31.4 (1977), 337-45. Rpt. in E. Baumgartner, ed., La Mort le Roi Artu. Parcours Critique. Paris: Klincksieck, 1994, pp. 100-06.

"Villon in his Work: the Testament and the Problem of Personal Poetry," L'Esprit Créateur , 18.1 (1978), 60-69.

"The Huntington Romanum Sancti Pauli ," Manuscripta, 22.2 (1978), 112-15.

"The Composition of L'Escoufle," Res Publica Litterarum, 1 (1978), 151-58.

"Typology and Analogy," in Authors and Philosophers, ed. M. Hardee. University of South Carolina French Literature Series, vol. VI. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1979, pp. 126-30.

"Gliglois and Love's New Order," Philological Quarterly, 59.3 (1980), 249-56.

"'Amer par oïr dire': Guillaume de Dole and the Drama of Language," French Review , 54.6 (1981), 779-87.

"The Kansas Manuscript of L'Istoire de Jehan Coquault," Manuscripta, 25.3 (1981), 172-76.

"The Flight of Time: Villon's Trilogy of Ballades," Romance Notes, 23.3 (1982), 353-58.

"Courtliness and Comedy in Aucassin et Nicolette," in Essays in Early French Literature Presented to Barbara M. Craig, pp. 65-72. [See Section II.]

"The Voices of Villon's Testament ," Dalhousie French Studies, 4 (1982), 3-12.

"Gauvain and the Crisis of Chivalry in the Conte du Graal," in The Sower and His Seed: Essays on Chrétien de Troyes, ed. R. Pickens. Lexington, KY: French Forum Publishers, 1983, pp. 155-64.

"The Appeal of Arthur," Avalon to Camelot , 1.2 (1983), 10-12.

Foreword to Marie de France, Fables , trans. M.L. Martin. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 1984, pp. i-iii.

"The Form of the Prose Erec," Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 85.2 (1984), 169-77.

"Charles d'Orléans," in Critical Survey of Poetry, ed. W. Beacham. La Canada, CA: Salem, 1984, pp. 337-43.

"Pierre de Ronsard," Ibid., pp. 1353-60.

"François Villon," Ibid., pp. 1653-61.

"Cligés and Courtliness," Interpretations, 15.2 (1984), 18-24.

"Fabliau Women," in The Ideology of Courtly Romance, ed. J. Burns and R. Krueger; special number of Romance Notes, 25.3 (1985), 318-27.

"Deception and Distance in Béroul's Tristan: A Reconsideration," Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association , 6 (1985), 33-39.

"The Form of Gautier d'Arras's Eracle ," Modern Philology, 83.3 (1986), 227-32.

"A Once and Future Castle," British Heritage (June-July 1986), pp. 54-61.

"Chivalry in Le Chevalier à l'épée and La Mule sans frein ," Vox Romanica , 45 (1986), 150-56.

"The Character of Gauvain in Hunbaut ," Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society , 38 (1986), 298-305.

"Typology of Arthurian Romance," in The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes , I, 33-56. [See Section II.]

"The Arthurian Ideal in Pierre Sala's Tristan," Arthurian Interpretations, 1, No. 2 (1987), 1-9.

"Excerpts of the President's Address, International Arthurian Congress, Leuven, Belgium, 23 July 1987," Quondam et Futurus , 7.4 (1987), 4-6.

"The French Romantics and Medieval French Literature: A Bibliographical Essay," Studies in Medievalism , 3.1 (1987), 87-97.

"Fabliaux and the Question of Genre," Reading Medieval Studies (University of Reading), 13 (1987), 25-34.

"Linking in the Perlesvaus," in Contemporary Readings of Medieval Literature , ed. G. Mermier. Ann Arbor: Michigan Romance Studies, 1989, pp. 169-78.

"The Design of the Didot-Perceval ," in Continuations: Essays on Medieval French Literature and Language in Honor of John L. Grigsb y, pp. 93-104. [See Section II.]

"Arthurian Film and the Tyranny of Tradition," Arthurian Interpretations, 4.1 (1989), 75-85.

"Perlesvaus and the Perceval Palimpsest," Philological Quarterly , 69.3 (1990), 263-71. Rpt. in Perceval/Parzival: A Casebook , pp. 97-103. [See Section II.]

"Narrative Method and the Question of Guilt in La Chastelaine de Vergi," Romance Notes, 31.2 (1990), 119-24.

"The Margins of Romance: Art and Artifice in Joufroi de Poitiers," Symposium , 44.4 (1990-91), 264-71.

"Mythopoeia in Excalibur," in Cinema Arthuriana: Film Versions of the Legend of King Arthur , ed. K.J. Harty. New York: Garland, 1991, pp. 122-34. Rpt. in Cinema Arthuriana: Twenty Essays , ed. K.J. Harty. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002, pp. 34-43.

"French Arthurian Literature in English Translation," Quondam et Futurus: A Journal of Arthurian Interpretations , 1.3 (1991), 55-74.

"Teaching the King Arthur of History and Chronicle," in Teaching the Arthurian Tradition in Literature , ed. M. Fries and J. Watson. New York: Modern Language Association, 1992, pp. 51-55.

"The Flowering (and Misreading) of Romance: Floire et Blancheflor," South Central Review , 9.2 (1992), 19-26.

"Convention and Innovation in Le Chevalier du papegau," in Studies in Honor of Hans-Erich Keller , ed. R. Pickens. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 1993, pp. 237-46.

"Les Merveilles de Rigomer and the Esthetics of 'Post-Chrétien' Romance," Arthurian Yearbook , 3 (1993), 75-88.

Co-editor, with R.H. Thompson, and contributor, "The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Supplement I," Arthurian Yearbook , 3 (1993), 227-69.

"Motivation and Method in the Burgundian Erec," in Conjunctures: Medieval Studies in Honor of Douglas Kelly , pp. 271-80. [See Section II.]

"The Mort Artu and Cyclic Closure," in The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations , ed. W. Kibler. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994, pp. 85-97.

"Emergent Direct Discourse in the Vulgate Cycle," Arthuriana, 4.1 (1994), 19-29.

"The Medievalist and Feminist Theory: Prejudices and Problems," Medieval Feminist Newsletter, 18 (1994), 9-11.

"The Prose Lancelot and the Uses of the Present," in Lancelot - Lanzelet, hier et aujourd'hui, pour fêter les 90 ans d'Alexandre Micha , ed. D. Buschinger and M. Zink. Greifswald: Reineke-Verlag, 1995, pp. 233-41.

"Arthurian Translation," in Medieval Arthurian Literature: A Guide to Recent Research , pp. 451-71. [See Section II.]

"Guinevere's Kidneys: The Lancelot-Grail Cycle and the Rise of Medieval Literary Realism," Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association , 15 (1994 [1996]), pp. 17-33.

"Convention and Innovation in the Middle Dutch Walewein," Tijdschrift voor Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde , 111, No. 4 (1995), 310-22. Rpt. in Arthurian Literature XVII (1999), 47-62.

"King Arthur," in Le Héros dans la réalité, dans la légende et dans la littérature médiévale , ed. D. Buschinger and W. Spiewok. Greifswald: Reineke-Verlag, 1996, pp. 67-80.

"From Roubaud to Griffiths: Arthurian Text as Inquest," Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society , 47 (1996), pp. 311-19.

"König Artus: Mythos und Entmythisierung," in Herrscher, Helden, Heilige: Mittelaltermythen , ed. W. Wunderlich and U. Müller. St. Gallen: UVK, 1996, pp. 47-63.

"Motif Transfer in Arthurian Romance," in The Medieval Opus, ed. D. Kelly. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1996, pp. 157-68.

"Sex and Love in the Fabliaux," in Love, Sex, and Marriage in Medieval Literature and Civilization , ed. D. Buschinger and W. Spiewok. Greifswald: Reineke-Verlag, 1997, pp. 41-46.

"Coutumes, merveilles et aventures dans le roman arthurien," in Chant et enchantement , ed. J.-C. Faucon and A. Labbé. Toulouse: Université de Toulouse - Le Mirail, 1997, pp. 157-69.

"The International Arthurian Society at Fifty," in Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society , 49 (1997), 225-33.

"Meraugis de Portlesguez: Narrative Voice and Female Presence," in Miscellanea Medievalia: Mélanges offerts à Philippe Ménard , ed. J.-C. Faucon, A. Labbé, and D. Quéruel. Paris: Champion, 1998, II, 817-25.

"King Arthur Goes To War," in King Arthur's Modern Return, ed. D. Mancoff. New York: Garland, 1998, pp. 159-69.

"Adaptation as Reception: The Burgundian Cligés," Fifteenth Century Studies , 24 (1998), 198-207.

"Gargantua in the Land of Arthur," in Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society , 50 (1998), 265-71.

Foreword to The Arthurian Name Dictionary , by C.W. Bruce. New York: Garland, 1998, p. vii.

"In Defense of Villon's Lais," in French Review, 72.6 (May 1999), 1000-09.

"French Arthurian Literature," in Literature of the French and Occitan Middle Ages, ed. D. Sinnreich-Levi and I. Laurie. Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 208. Detroit: Gale, 1999, pp. 296-306.

"Where the Truth Lies: Fact and Belief in Béroul's Tristran," Romance Philology , 52 (1999), 1-10.

"The Evolution and Legacy of French Prose Romance," in The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance , ed. R. Krueger. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000, pp. 167-82.

"A Priest's Worst (K)nightmare: Fabliau Justice in Le Prestre et le Chevalier," French Forum , 25.2 (2000), 137-44.

"Narration and Textual Grammar in the Roman van Moriaen," in Arthur in the Medieval Low Countries , ed. G. Claassens and D. Johnson. Leuven: University of Leuven Press, 2000, pp. 125-34.

"From Medieval to Post-Modern: The Arthurian Quest in France," South Atlantic Review, 65.2 (2000), 114-33. (Winner of the South Atlantic Review Essay Prize, 2000.)

"Warmongering in Verse: The Vows of the Heron," in Inscribing the Hundred Years' War , ed. D. Baker. Albany: SUNY Press, 2000, pp. 17-25.

"Lovespell and the Disinterpretation of a Legend," Arthuriana, 10.4 (2000), pp. 5-14.

"Perceval's Sister in the Prose Yvain ," in Guerres, voyages et quêtes au Moyen Age: Mélanges offerts à Jean-Claude Faucon , ed. A. Labbé, D. Lacroix, and D. Quéruel. Paris: Champion, 2000, pp. 255-63.

"Jessie Laidlay Weston (1850-1928)," in On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries , ed. B. Wheeler and F. Tolhurst. Dallas: Scriptorium Press, 2000, pp. 335-42.

"Jealousy, Fidelity, and Form in the Livre de Caradoc," in Philologies Old and New: Essays in Honor of Peter Florian Dembowski , ed. J. Grimbert and C. Chase. The Edward C. Armstrong Monographs in Medieval Literature. Princeton, NJ, 2001, pp. 281-89.

Co-editor, with R.H. Thompson, and contributor, "Arthurian Literature, Art, and Film, 1995-99," Arthurian Literature , 18 (2001), pp. 193-255.

"The Documentary Arthur," in King Arthur in Popular Culture, ed. E. Sklar and D. Hoffman. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2002, pp. 78-86.

"Subject to Object: Performance and Observation in the Fabliaux," Symposium, 56.1 (2002), pp. 17-23.

"Arthurian Research in a New Century: Prospects and Projects." In New Directions in Arthurian Studies, ed. A. Lupack. Cambridge: Brewer, 2002, pp. 1-20.

"Unteaching and Teaching the Arthurian Legend," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching, 9.2 (2002), pp. 35-44.

"Convention, Character, and the Form of La Vengeance Raguidel," Arthurian Literature , 19 (2003), pp. 65-75.

"Halfway to Quixote: Humor in Blandin de Cornoalha," in Risus medievalis: Laughter in Medieval Literature and Art, ed. Herman Braet et al. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2003, pp. 173-80.

"Pathelin in 1706: 'de l'or dans un fumier'?" in Theatrum mundi: Studies in Honor of Ronald W. Tobin , ed. C. Carlin and K. Wine. Charlottesville: Rookwood Press, 2003, pp. 163-68.

"Naming and the Construction of Identity in Li Chevaliers as deus espees," Romance Philology , 56 (2003), 203-16.

"The Sense of an Ending: La Mort Artu ," in A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle , ed. C. Dover. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2003, pp. 115-23.

Preface, The Arthurian Annals, ed. P. Boardman and D. Nastali. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. vii-viii.

"The Enigma of the Prose Yvain," in Textual Traditions of Mediaeval Arthurian Literature: Essays in Honour of P.J.C. Field , ed. B. Wheeler. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004, pp. 65-71.

"The Da Vinci Code: Dan Brown and the Grail that Never Was," Arthuriana, 14.3 (2004), 81-93.

"On Armor and Identity: Chrétien and Beyond," in "De sens rassis": Essays in Honor of Rupert T. Pickens , ed. K. Busby, B. Guidot, and L. Whalen. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2005, pp. 365-74.

"The Uses of Middle Dutch Arthuriana," Arthuriana, 15.2 (2005), 1-10.

"Arthurian Translation," in A History of Arthurian Scholarship, pp. 49-61. [See Section II.]

"The Arthurian Legend Before Chrétien de Troyes," in A Companion to Chrétien de Troyes, pp. 43-51. [See Section II.]

Co-editor, with R.H. Thompson, and contributor, "The Arthurian Legend in Literature, Popular Culture, and the Performing Arts, 2000-2004," Arthurian Literature , 22 (2005), 100-75.

"Arthur in the Graduate Seminar," in Arthuriana, 15.4 (2005), 47-52.

"Medieval McGuffins: The Arthurian Model," Arthuriana, 15.4 (2005), 53-64.

"On Customs in Medieval French Romance," Revue Belge de Philologie et d'Histoire , 83 (2005), 977-86.

"The Ambiguous Fortunes of Arthur: The Lancelot-Grail and Beyond," in The Fortunes of King Arthur , pp. 92-103. [See Section II.]

"Arthurian Legends and the Influence of French Prose Romance," introductory essay for the "Arthurian Manuscripts on Film from the British Library" from Adam Matthew Publishers. [Marlborough, England], 2006, pp. 7-11.

"Perceval's Permutations: The Interfigural Effect," in "Contez me tout": Mélanges de littérature médiévales offerts à Herman Braet, ed. C. Bel, P. Dumont, and F. Willaert. Leuven: Peeters, 2006, pp. 259-64.

"L'Atre perilleux and the Erasure of Identity," in Arthurian Literature, 23 (2006), 109-16.

"Arthurian Burgundy: The Politics of Arthur," in The Arthur of the French, ed. G. Burgess and K. Pratt. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006, pp. 494-96. 

"Modern French Arthurian Literature," in The Arthur of the French, ed. G. Burgess and K. Pratt. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006, pp. 546-55.

"Echoes of Silence: From Heldris de Cornuälles to Jacques Roubaud," in "Chançon legiere a chanter": Essays in Honor of Samuel N. Rosenberg , ed. K. Fresco and W. Pfeffer. Birmingham, AL: Summa Publications, 2007, pp. 447-56.

"Arthur's Character and Reputation in Yder," in Cahiers de Recherches Médiévales, 14 (2007), 41-48.

"Perceval on the Margins: A Pan-European Perspective," in The European Dimensions of Arthurian Literature , ed. F. Brandsma and B. Besamusca, Arthurian Literature, 24 (2007),  1-14.

"Trickery, Trubertage, and the Limits of Laughter," in The Old French Fabliaux: Context and Comedy, pp. 82-92. [See Section II.]

"Epopée et cinéma," in Olifant. Forthcoming in Epic Studies, ed. A. Berthelot. Olifant, N.S. 25.1 and 2, 2007 [2008], pp. 109-23.

"Short Verse Narratives," in Handbook of Medieval Studies, ed. A. Classen. De Gruyter. Forthcoming.

"Arthur of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries," in The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend , ed. E. Archibald and A. Putter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.

"Labyrinths and Mazes: The Shapes of Arthurian Romance," in a Festschrift in honor of [name withheld at request of editors]. Forthcoming.

"An Eighteenth-Century Arthur," in a Festschrift for [name withheld at request of editors]. Forthcoming.

"From Le Chevalier aux deux épées to the Prose Yvain," in a Festschrift for [name withheld at request of editors].

"The Grail and/or Arthur," in The Grail, the Quest, and the World of Arthur, pp. 1-12. [See Section II.]

"The Elucidation" [introduction to an English translation] for the "Camelot Project" (2007); electronic publication at http://www.library.rochester.edu/camelot/elucidation.htm.

"Arthurian Literature and Film, 2004-07" [with R. Thompson], in Arthurian Literature. Forthcoming.

"Arthurian Texts in their Historical and Social Context," electronic publication by Université de Rennes II (France). Forthcoming.

Preface to The Other Within, ed. K. Burr and A. Tudor. Forthcoming.

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V. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES/ARTICLES

"Guillaume de Dole," in Dictionary of the Middle Ages, ed. J. Strayer. New York: Scribners, 1985.

Entries in The Arthurian Encyclopedia,The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, and The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Updated Edition. [See Section II.] 81, 120, and 132 entries, respectively (some as co-author).

"Arthurian Legend," in The 1890s: An Encyclopedia of British Literature, Art, and Culture , ed. G.A. Cevasco. New York: Garland, 1993.

Nine entries (two as co-author) in The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, Supplement I." [See Section IV.] Entries: "Birtwistle, Harrison," "Blaylock, James," "Claudel, Paul," "Eco, Umberto," "Games," "Gilliam, Terry," "Griffiths, Paul," "Le Dantec, Jean-Pierre," "Tréhorenteuc."

Fifteen entries for Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, ed. W. Kibler. New York: Garland, 1995. Entries: "Arthurian Compilations," "Béroul," "Brun de la Montagne ," "Chastellain, Pierre," "Crétin, Guillaume," "Fabliaux," "Fatrasie, Fatras," "Gautier le Leu," "Guillaume de Saint-Pair," "Henri d'Andeli," "Huon le Roi de Cambrai," "Laurent de Premierfait," " Perlesvaus ," " Prophécies de Merlin ," " Sone de Nausay ."

Three entries in The Feminist Companion to French Literature, ed. E. Sartori. Greenwood, 1999. Entries: "Chanson de toile," "Mystères," "Fabliaux."

Eight entries in Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 2000 (interactive encyclopedia). Entries: "Arthur," "Arthurian Legend," "Camelot," "Galahad," "Gawain," "Guinevere," "Mordred," "Morgan le Fay." Microsoft Corporation, 1999.

Four entries in Encyclopedia of Medieval Folklore, ed. C. Lindahl. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2000. Entries: "Arthur," "Chrétien de Troyes," "Grail," "Tristram and Iseult."

Nineteen entries (as author or co-author) for "Arthurian Literature, Art, and Film, 1995-99," ed. N. Lacy and R. Thompson. [See Section VI.] Entries: "Ab Hugh, David," "Ackerman, Felicia," "Brooke, Maxey," "Chapman, Vera," "Curry, Ann," "Fry, Colin," "Karr, Phyllis," "Lee, Tanith," "Morris, William," "Mulock, Dinah," "Rio, Michel," "Roberson, Jennifer," "Roberts, Theodore," "Salmonson, Jessica," "Schweitzer, Darrell," "Sutton, David," "Timlett, Peter," "Tremayne, Peter," "Wilmot-Buxton, E.M."

Nine entries for "The Arthurian Legend in Literature, Popular Culture, and the Performing Arts, 1999-2004," ed. R. Thompson and N. Lacy. [See Section IV.] Entries: "Ackerman, Felicia," "Brown, Dan," "David, Peter," "Eco, Umberto," "Jones, Diana Wynne," "Lamoureux, Jacques," "Mintz, Leon," "Rio, Michel," "Roubaud, Jacques."

Two entries for Women and Gender in Medieval Europe: An Encyclopedia, ed. M. Schaus. New York: Routledge, 2006. Entries: "Arthurian Literature," pp. 41-44; "Fabliaux,” pp. 271-72.

Three entries for "Arthurian Literature and Film, 2004-07," ed. R. Thompson and N. Lacy. [See Section IV.] Entries: Peter David; Kate Mosse; Michel and Istin. Forthcoming.

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VI. TRANSLATIONS

A. Literary Translation (other than translations identified in Sections I and II)

Translation of Béroul's Tristan : translation into prose in The Romance of Arthur II , ed. J.J. Wilhelm. New York: Garland, 1986, pp. 151-97; revised and reprinted in the new edition of The Romance of Arthur (1994), pp. 225-76.

Translation of Marie de France, Lais ( Lanval, Chevrefueil ), in Arthurian Literature by Women , ed. A. Lupack and B. Lupack (New York: Garland, 1999), pp. 33-42.

Translation of Marie de France, Lais ( Chevrefueil, Laüstic , and Bisclavret ), in Writings by Pre-Revolutionary French Women from Marie de France to Elizabeth Vigée-le-Brun , ed. C. Winn and A. Larsen (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 1-16.

B. Scholarly Translation

Translation of "Notre Dame and Satan: Characters in a Popular Scenario," by M. Lazar, in A Medieval French Miscellany , pp. 1-14. [See Section II.]

Translation of "The Enigma of the Grail: Modern Critical Hypotheses," by J.-C. Lozac'hmeur, Avalon to Camelot , 1.4 (1984), pp. 20-23.

Translation of entries on "Apollinaire, Guillaume," "Benoit, Pierre," "Guénon, René," and "Gracq, Julien," by R. Baudry, in The Arthurian Encyclopedia . The New Arthurian Encyclopedia retains those and adds my translations of "Châteaubriant, Alphonse de," "Escholier, Raymond," "Laforgue, Jules," and "Péladan, Joséphin," by R. Baudry, and of "Gonnot, Michot," "Butor, Bauduin," "Prose Merlin ," "Hoël," and "Vaillant de Poitiers, Jean," by C.-A. Van Coolput. [See Section II.]

Translation of "Representations of Time and Its Models in the Prose Romance," by Katalin Halász, in Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature , pp. 175-86. [See Section II.]

Translation of entries for "Arthurian Literature, Art, and Film, 1995-99": "Painters, Contemporary Breton," by M. Lacassagne; of "Le Guillou, Philippe" and "Robbe-Grillet, Alain," by O. Penot. In Arthurian Literature, 18 (2001). [See Section IV.]

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VII. MISCELLANEOUS

[Essay] "Don't They All Speak English There Anyway?" Kansas Alumni , April 1979; rpt. in College Report, University of Kansas, Spring 1985.

[Poem] "Avalon," in The Round Table: A Journal of Poetry and Fiction, 4.1-2 (1987), 59. Also available on line at The Camelot Project <http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/Lacy.htm>.

[Necrology] "John L. Grigsby (1928-1988)," Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society , 40 (1988), 294-95. [Shorter versions appeared in Quondam et Futurus , in Encomia , and in the Newsletter of the North American Branch of the International Arthurian Society.]

[Necrology] "Richard O'Gorman (1928-1996)," Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society , 49 (1997), 286-87.

"The World of King Arthur," program introduction for a series of four concerts, "The Once and Future King: Music for King Arthur and His Knights," presented by the New Orleans Musica da Camera, March 1998.

"Richard O'Gorman," Arthuriana, 9.3 (1999), 103-04. [In a series of memoirs titled "Notable Arthurians," ed. S. Eisner.]

[Fiction] "Merlin the Mad," electronic publication by "The Camelot Project," 2003. [At http://www.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/LacyMerl.htm.]

[Humor] "The Kalamazoo Fragment: A Newly Discovered Arthurian Text," Arthuriana, 14.1 (2004), 82-84.

]Necrology] "Elspeth Kennedy," Romance Philology, 61 (Spring 2007), 103-04.

"Cumulative Index of Supplements to The New Arthurian Encyclopedia" [with R. Thompson]. Electronic publication by The Camelot Project, University of Rochester. [Forthcoming]

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VIII. REVIEWS

Ronsard and the Age of Gold, by E. Armstrong, Modern Language Journal , 53.4 (1969), 281.

La Chanson de Willame: A Critical Study , by H. Robertson, L'Esprit Créateur , 9.2 (1969), 146-47.

Robert de Blois's "Floris et Lyriopé," ed. P. Barrette, Modern Language Journal , 54.4 (1970), 297.

Aesthetic Distance in Chrétien de Troyes: Irony and Comedy in "Cligés" and "Perceval , " by P. Haidu, Modern Language Journal , 54.5 (1970), 385-86.

100 Ballades, Rondeaux and Virelais from the Late Middle Ages, by N. Wilkins, Modern Language Journal, 54.6 (1970), 460.

La Grammaire à l'œuvre, by J. Barson, Modern Language Journal, 55.2 (1971), 120-21.

Innovation in Medieval Literature, ed. D. Radcliff-Umstead, French Review , 46.1 (1972), 142-43.

The Song of Roland: Formulaic Style and Poetic Craft, by J. Duggan, French Review , 47.6 (1974), 1172-73.

Le Deuxième Cycle de la Croisade, by R. Cook and L. Crist, French Review , 47.6 (1974), 1174-75.

Two Old French Gauvain Romances, ed. R.C. Johnston and D.D.R. Owen, Modern Language Journal , 58.5-6 (1974), 274.

"Le Style formulaire dans Girart de Roussillon," by W.M. Hackett, Olifant , 2.1 (1974), 50-51.

Visages de Paris au Moyen Age, by A. Jouve, Modern Language Journal , 59.7 (1975), 399-400.

Yvain, or the Knight with the Lion, trans. R. Cline, Modern Language Journal , 59.8 (1975), 471.

Perceval et l'initiation , by P. Gallais, French Review , 49.4 (1976), 606-07.

Langue, Texte, Enigme , by P. Zumthor, L'Esprit Créateur , 16.1 (1976), 76.

Le Tristan en prose , by E. Baumgartner, French Review , 50.1 (1976), 146.

Fleur de Lys: the Kings and Queens of France, by J. Law, Modern Language Journal , 61.5-6 (1977), 295.

Le Fabliau, by O. Jodogne and Le Lai narratif, by J.C. Payen, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale, 20.1 (1977), 59-61.

Poétique et onomastique , by F. Rigolot, Modern Language Journal , 62.5-6 (1978), 314.

The Welsh Knight: Paradoxicality in Chrétien's "Conte del Graal," French Review , 52.1 (1978), 155-56.

Les Enchantemenz de Bretaigne, ed. P. Smith, Modern Language Journal , 62.7 (1978), 364.

The Creation of the First Arthurian Romance, by C. Luttrell, Res Publica Litterarum , 1 (1978), 292-95.

The Old French and Chaucerian Fabliaux: A Study of Their Comic Climax, by T. Cooke, Res Publica Litterarum, 2 (1979), 368-69.

Fabliaux, trans. G. Rouger, French Review, 53.2 (1979), 289.

Medieval Imagination , by D. Kelly, L'Esprit Créateur , 19.4 (1979), 120-21.

La Faiblesse chez Gautier de Coinci, by B. Cazelles, Rocky Mountain Review , 34.1 (1980), 74.

The Legend of the City of Ys, trans. D. Cavanagh, Nineteenth Century French Studies , 8.3-4 (1980), 287-88.

Les Fabliaux, ed. P. Ménard, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale , 23.4 (1980), 401-02.

Le Roman jusqu'à la fin du XIIIe siècle, ed. J. Frappier and R. Grimm, Speculum , 56.1 (1981), 132-33.

The Redemption of Chivalry , by P. Matarasso, French Review , 54.4 (1981), 588-89.

The Poetics of "Translatio Studii" and "Conjointure": Chrétien de Troyes's "Cligés," by M. Freeman, Res Publica Litterarum , 5.2 (1982), 262-63.

Roman rose et rose rouge , by M. Zink, Res Publica Litterarum, 5.2 (1982), 263.

Mélanges Foulon , French Review, 55.4 (1982), 543-44.

Chrétien de Troyes and "Le Conte del Graal," by Sr. A. Klenke, French Review , 56.3 (1983), 475-76.

Erotic Love in Literature , by D. Furber and A. Callahan, Nineteenth Century French Studies , 11.3-4 (1983), 357-58.

Parler du moyen âge , by P. Zumthor, L'Esprit Créateur , 23.1 (1983), 104-05.

Le "Galien" de Cheltenham , ed. D. Dougherty and E. Barnes, French Review , 56.5 (1983), 764.

Narrative Conventions of Truth in the Middle Ages, by J. Beer, French Review , 57.1 (1983), 103-04.

The State of Scholarship in Fourteenth-Century Literature, ed. T. Cooke (French section by A. Knight), French Review, 57.2 (1983), 241.

Kings and Queens of Early Britain, by G. Ashe, Speculum, 58.4 (1983), 1105-06.

Romanesque Signs: Early Medieval Narrative and Iconography, by S. Nichols, French Review , 57.6 (1984), 867-68.

Chrétien de Troyes: "Cligés," by L. Polak, and Marie de France: "Lais," by P. Clifford, French Review, 58.3 (1985), 443-44.

Le Moyen Age, by J.C. Payen, Speculum, 60.3 (1985), 750-51.

Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages , by H. Bloch, French Review, 59.1 (1985), 123-24.

Chrétien de Troyes , by J. Frappier (trans. R. Cormier), Modern Language Studies , 15.3 (1985), 89-91.

Attitudes chevaleresques et réalités politiques chez Froissart , by G. Diller, French Review , 59.3 (1986), 456-57.

The Romance of Arthur , ed. J. Wilhelm and L.Z. Gross, Avalon to Camelot , 2.1 (1986), 32.

Les Fabliaux: contes à rire du moyen âge, by P. Ménard, Modern Language Studies , 16.1 (1986), 337-39.

Le Roman de Floriant et Florete, ed. C. Lévy, Romance Philology , 40.1 (1986), 117-19.

Villon: Poems, by J. Fox, Speculum, 61.4 (1986), 927-28.

La Farce ou la machine à rire: théorie d'un genre dramatique, 1450-1550 , by B. Rey-Flaud, French Review , 60.2 (1986), 252-53.

Hervis de Metz, trans. P. Walter, Olifant, 11.3-4 (1986), 260-63.

The Challenge of the Medieval Text, by W.T.H. Jackson, French Review , 60.3 (1987), 387-88.

The Romance of Hunbaut: An Arthurian Poem of the Thirteenth Century , ed. M. Winters, Romance Philology, 41.2 (1987), 234-35.

The Scandal of the Fabliaux , by H. Bloch, French Review, 60.4 (1987), 531-32.

The Old French Fabliaux , by C. Muscatine, French Review , 61.2 (1987), 296-97.

Dix siècles de littérature angevine, by G. Cesbron, French Review , 61.3 (1988), 459.

The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: A Symposium, ed. D. Kelly, Speculum , 63.3 (1988), 690-92.

The Origins of Courtliness , by C.S. Jaeger, Envoi, 1.1 (1988), 221-22.

Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Readership and Authority in the First "Roman de la Rose ," by D. Hult, French Review , 62.1 (1988), 161-62.

King Arthur: Hero and Legend, by R. Barber, Speculum, 63.4 (1988), 896-98.

The Lais of Marie de France: Text and Context, by G. Burgess, French Review , 62.3 (1989), 515-16.

Joufroi de Poitiers , trans. R. Noël, French Review , 62.5 (1989), 885-86.

The Fabliaux: Tales of Wit and Deception, by M.J. Schenck, French Forum , 14.1 (1989), 91-92.

"Yvain" dans le miroir , by J. Grimbert, French Review , 63.2 (1989), 367.

Love's Masks: Identity, Intertextuality and Meaning in the Old French Tristan Poems , by M. Blakeslee, Envoi, 2.2 (1990), 274-77.

Le Jugement du roy de Behaigne and Remede de Fortune, by Guillaume de Machaut, ed. J. Wimsatt and W. Kibler, French Review, 64.5 (1991), 842.

The Dilemma of Arnulf of Lisieux, by C. Schriber, French Review , 65.2 (1991), 321-22.

L'Ethique du changement dans le roman français du XIIe siècle , by D. Delcourt, French Forum, 16.3 (1991), 348-49.

L'Imaginaire d'un romancier français de la fin du XIIe siècle , by P. Gallais, French Review, 65.6 (1992), 1059-60.

The Complete Romances of Chrétien de Troyes, trans. D. Staines, Speculum , 67.3 (1992), 650-51.

The Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes, by D. Maddox, French Forum , 18.1 (1993), 77-78.

Chrétien de Troyes, Yvain: The Knight of the Lion, trans. B. Raffel, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale , 36.2 (1993), 203.

The Artist at Work: Narrative Technique in Chrétien de Troyes , by E. Mullally, Romance Philology, 47.1 (1993), 127-130.

Le Roman de Tristan en prose, vols. III-IV, ed. G. Roussineau and J.-C. Faucon, French Review, 67.1 (1993), 125-26.

Le Roman de Tristan en prose, vol. V, ed. D. Lalande and T. Delcourt, French Review , 67.3 (1994), 510-11.

Les Prophesies de Merlin , ed. A. Berthelot, Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur , 104.2 (1994), 187-89.

Medieval Interpretation: Models of Reading in Literary Narrative, 1100-1500 , by R. Sturges, Speculum, 69.1 (1994), 569-71.

Medieval Narrative and Modern Narratology, by E.B. Vitz, French Review, 68.1 (1994), 141.

Index des motifs narratifs dans les romans arthuriens français en vers , by A. Guerreau-Jalabert, Speculum, 69.3 (1994), 788-90.

Shaping Romance: Interpretation, Truth, and Closure in Twelfth-Century French Fictions , by M. Bruckner, Speculum, 70 (1995), 128-29.

Feudal Society in Medieval France: Documents from the County of Champagne , ed. T. Evergates, French Review, 68 (1995), 768.

Le Roman de Tristan en prose, vol. VI, ed. E. Baumgartner et M. Szkilnik, French Review , 68.6 (1995), 1084-85.

The Romance of Tristran by Beroul, ed. S. Gregory, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale , 38 (1995), 187-88.

Romancing the Past: The Rise of Vernacular Prose Historiography in Thirteenth-Century France , by G. Spiegel, French Review, 69.1 (1995), 130-31.

From Scythia to Camelot , by C.S. Littleton and L.A. Malcor, Speculum , 70.4 (1995), 930-31.

Chrétien de Troyes: Perceval, ou le conte du Graal, by K. Busby, Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur, 105.2 (1995), 176-77.

Epic and Epoch: Essays on the Interpretation and History of a Genre , ed. S. Oberhelman, V. Kelly, and R. Golsan, French Review , 69.2 (1995), 355-56.

Les Manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes, ed. K. Busby, T. Nixon, A. Stones, and L. Walters, French Review, 69.2 (1995), 325-26.

Les Romans de Chrétien de Troyes, ed. D. Poirion; and Les Romans de Chrétien de Troyes , ed. M. Zink, French Review , 69.2 (1995), 326-27.

Arthurian Literature XIII, ed. F. Riddy and J. Carley, Arthuriana , 5.4 (1995), 105-06.

Les Visions de la vie de cour dans la littérature française de la fin du moyen âge , by J. Lemaire, French Review , 69.3 (1996), 496-97.

Nouveau Recueil complet des fabliaux, vol. VII, ed. W. Noomen, Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale , 38 (1995), 63.

Paganism in Arthurian Romance, by J. Darrah, Speculum, 71.3 (1996), 711-13.

Le Roman de la rose ou de Guillaume de Dole, ed. and trans. R. Psaki, Arthuriana , 6.3 (1996), 80-81.

France in the Sixteenth Century, by F.J. Baumgartner, and A History of France, 1460-1560 , by D. Potter, French Review , 70.5 (1997), 760-62.

The Master and Minerva: Disputing Women in French Medieval Culture, by H. Solterer, French Review, 70.6 (1997), 936-37.

Nouveau Recueil complet des fabliaux