Bestsellers and Masterpieces

Introduction - Heather Blurton and Dwight F. Reynolds

Part I: Hanging by a thread: unique manuscripts and their place in the 'modern' medieval canon
1. Contemplating books with Usama ibn Munqidh's Book of Contemplation - Paul M. Cobb
2. Dons and dragons: Beowulf and 'popular reading' - Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver
3. Ibn ?azm's ?awq al-?amama (The Neck-Ring of the Dove) - Boris Liebrenz
4. 'Thirty pieces of silver': interpreting anti-Jewish imagery in the Poema de mio Cid manuscript - Ryan D. Giles
5. 'Let no bad song be sung of us': fame, memory and transmission in/and the Chanson de Roland - Sharon Kinoshita

Part II: Medieval bestsellers: reading the 'medieval canon'?
6. World literature and its discontents: reading the life of A?iqar - Daniel L. Selden
7. The Alexander Romance in the age of scribal reproduction: the aesthetics and precariousness of a popular text - Shamma Boyarin
8. Wisdom literature and the medieval bestsellers - Karla Mallette
9. Lost worlds: encyclopedism and riddles in the tale of Tawaddud/Theodor - Christine Chism

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