A companion to the Gawain-poet

Theories of authorship / Malcolm Andrew

Poetic identity / A.C. Spearing

Gender and sexual transgression / Jane Gilbert

The historical background / Michael J. Bennett

Christianity for courtly subjects : reflections on the Gawain-poet / David Aers

Landscape and geography / Ralph Elliott

Castles / Michael Thompson

Feasts / Derek Brewer

Jewels in Pearl / Felicity Riddy

The hunts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Anne Rooney

Armour I / Michael Lacy

Armour II : the arming topos as literature ; The colour green ; Some names / Derek Brewer

The manuscript : British Library MS Cotton Nero A.x / A.S.G. Edwards

Meter, stanza, vocabulary, dialect / H.N. Duggan

Sources I : the sources of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Elisabeth Brewer

Sources II : scriptural and devotional sources / Richard Newhauser

The supernatural / Helen Cooper

The Gawain-poet as a vernacular theologian / Nicholas Watson

Allegory and symbolism / Priscilla Martin

Narrative form and insight / Nick Davis

Courtesy and chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight : the order of shame and the invention of embarrassment / Derek Pearsall

Sir Gawain : some later versions. The Grene Knight / Gillian Rogers

Sir Gawain at the fin de siècle : novel and opera / Barry Windeatt

Sir Gawain in films / David J. Williams.