1st Edition
Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales
1. Introduction
Melissa Ridley Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo
2. Grendel’s Eucharist: An Outlaw’s Last Supper
Eric Carlson
3. The Social Contracts of "Mete and Drink" in The Tale of Gamelyn
Renée Ward
4. Bread without Onions: Winning the Crusades Through French Cuisine in Honoré Bovet’s 1398 The Apparition of Master Jean de Meun (L’Apparicion maistre Jean de Meun)
Sylvia Grove
5. Of Courtesy and Community: Food and Feasting in A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode
Sherron Lux
6. The Preparation and Consumption of Food as Signifiers of Class and Gender Identity in Select Premodern Texts and Examples of the Robin Hood Cinematic Canon
Lorraine Kochanske Stock
7. "So Shall We Take Our Dinner Sweet?": When the Greenwood Consumes the Outlaw
Marybeth Ruether-Wu
8. Robin Hood’s Poached Feasting in Context: Poor Knights, Disguised Kings, and Romance Parody in A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode
Mark Truesdale
9. The Poached Feast and the Kingly Blow: The Question of Courtesy in Late Medieval King-in-Disguise Narratives
Melissa Winders and Sarah Harlan-Haughey
10. Acting Out(law): Feasts, Outlawry, and Identity Constructions in Two Shakespearean Comedies
Melissa Ridley Elmes
11. Early Modern Fishing Practices and Seafood Culture in Robin Hood’s Fishing
Jason Hogue
12. "Bread with Danger Purchased": Hunger, Plenty and the Outlaw on the Early Modern Stage
Matt Williamson
Biography
Melissa Ridley Elmes is Assistant Professor of English at Lindenwood University. Her research engages the literatures and cultures of the premodern British Isles and North Atlantic world.
Kristin Bovaird-Abbo is an Associate Professor of English at the University of Northern Colorado. She teaches and researches medieval language and literature, particularly Middle English and Arthurian studies, with a particular interest in the effects of gender and class on the Arthurian character of Gawain in late Middle English romances.
