Acknowledgements
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Preface
Introduction by S. Elizabeth Passmore and Susan Carter
Through the Counsel of a Lady: The Irish and English Loathly Lady Tales and the "Mirrors for Princes' Genre" by S. Elizabeth Passmore
The Politics of Strengthe and Vois in Gower's Loathly Lady Tale by R. F. Yeager
Sovereignty through the Lady: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and the Queenship of Anne of Bohemia by Elizabeth M. Biebel-Stanley
A Hymenation of Hags by Susan Carter
Folklore and Powerful Women in Gower's "Tale of Florent" by Russell A. Peck
Controlling the Loathly Lady, or What Really Frees Dame Ragnelle by Paul Gaffney
"The Marriage of Sir Gawain": Piecing the Fragments Together by Stephanie Hollis
A Jungian Approach to the Ballad "King Henry" by Mary Edwards Shaner
Repainting the Lion: "The Wife of Bath's Tale" and a Traditional British Ballad by Lynn M. Wollstadt
Why Dame Ragnell Had to Die: Feminine Usurpation of Male Authority in "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell" by Mary Leech
Brains or Beauty: Limited Sovereignty in the Loathly Lady Tales "The Wife of Bath's Tale," "Thomas of Erceldoune," and "The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle" by Ellen M. Caldwell