Introduction: Allegory and the Poetic Self: First Person Narration in Late Medieval Literature / Katharina Philipowski and Julia Rüthemann
Part I. Authorship and Authorial Identity
Once Again the Authorship of the Roman de la Rose / David Hult
From the Narrating to the Accused "I" in Machaut's Jugement poems / Jacqueline Cerquiglini-Toulet
Ren' d'Anjou and His Textual Models / Kevin Brownlee
Polymorphic Self-Narration in Le livre du Chevalier errant by Thomas III of Saluzzo / Rober Fajen
Part II. Focusing the Narrator
I-Narration and Allegorical Dialogue in Machaut's Dit dou Vergier and Prologue / R. Barton Palmer
First-Person Allegory and the Concept of the Unreliable Narrator / Sonja Glauch
The Heart in the Minnelehre, the Roman de la Poire and the Livre du C'ur d'Amour pris / Julia Rüthemann
Boundaries of Form and Subject in Fifteenth-Century dits / Helen Swift
Part III. Love and Desire between Tradition and Subjectivity
Dueling Models of Desire: Ovid and Boethius in the Rose and the Dit Amoureux / Sylvia Huot
Boccaccio's Amorosa Visione: The Search for Wholeness in the Spirit of Erotic Pleasure / Friedrich Wolfzettel
Frustrating Autobiography: The Examples of El Libro de buen amor and Cárcel de amor
The Semantics of Love and Narrative Ground in Guiraut Riquier's Libre / Susanne A. Friede
Glossing the "Text" of Love: First-Person Narration and the Performative Self in Hadamar von Laber's Jagd / Christian Schneider
Postscript / R. Barton Palmer.