Treason

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Acknowledgments

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Notes on Contributors

Introduction: The Shameful Business of Betrayal and Treason

 Larissa Tracy

Part 1: The Politics of Treason

 1 Wiglaf’s Sword: The Coming of the State

 Frank Battaglia

 2 In Sickness and in Health: the Boethian Narrative of the Two Geralds of Brecon

 Sarah J. Sprouse

 3 Treasonous and Dishonorable Conduct: the Private Dimension of Treason and Chivalric Reform in Late Medieval Florence

 Peter Sposato

 4 Royal Punishment and Reconciliation in Trastámara Castile

 Samuel A. Claussen

 5 “A somewhat too cruel vengeance was taken for the blood of the slain”: Royal Punishment of Rebels, Traitors, and Political Enemies in Medieval Scotland, c. 1100–c. 1250

 Iain A. MacInnes

Part 2: Religious Treason and Heresy

 6 Revolt in Heaven: Lucifer’s Treason in Genesis B

 Daniel Thomas

 7 Blessed Betrayal: The Opportunity of Treachery in Anglo-Latin Ecclesiastical Texts

 Sally Shockro

 8 Legal Ramifications of Ordeals and Treason in Morant und Galie

 Tina Boyer

 9 Religious Identity, Loyalty, and Treason in the Cycle du Roi

 Ana Grinberg

 10 Traitors Respond: English Catholic Polemical Strategies against Accusations of Treason at the End of the Sixteenth Century

 Freddy C. Domínguez

Part 3: Treasonous Love: Adultery and Shame

 11 Treason and Deception in Late Medieval German Romances and Novels Königin Sibille, Melusine, and Malagis

 Albrecht Classen

 12 Treacherous Women at King Arthur’s Court: Punishment and Shame

 Inna Matyushina

 13 Treason and the Feast in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur

 Melissa Ridley Elmes

 14 ‘Tis Fearful Sleeping in a Serpent’s Bed’: Arden of Favershamand the Threat of the Petty Traitor

 Dianne Berg

 15 The Spatial Configuration of Shame in La Princesse de Clèves

 Susan Small

Conclusion: the Shame Game, from Guinevere to Cersei: Adultery, Treason, and Betrayal

 Larissa Tracy

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