This collection brings together twelve selected papers given at the Second Triennial Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society. Because the courtly ethos is the central phenomenon marking medieval vernacular literature, it provides a theme that serves as an ideological guide through the later Middle Ages and on into the Renaissance and as a framework for the essays collected in this volume.

Contributions by: Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox, John M. Bowers, Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, William Calin, Lowanne E. Jones, Winifred Gleason Keaney, William Melczer, Florence H. Ridley, Terence Scully, Eugène Vinaver, Friederike Wiesmann-Wiedemann