Preface: Machaut and the late medieval dit / R. Barton Palmer
Introduction / Burt Kimmelman
Part I. Political and literary authorities: the place of judgment
Judgment at court: open thought and prudent dissimulation in the anonymous Livre du Tresor Amoureux / Douglas Kelly
"Le contraire effacies": challenging literary and political authority in Guillaume de Machaut, Alain Chartier, and medieval French debate poetry / Emma Cayley
Courting controversy? Poetic manipulations of politics in the mid-fifteenth century / Helen Swift
Part II. Adaptations and appropriations
The Machaut map: Geoffrey Chaucer, Christine de Pizan, the diegetic self, and pre-renaissance individualism in Northern Europe / Burt Kimmelman
True colors: the significance of Machaut's and Chaucer's use of blue to represent fidelity / Elizaveta Strakhov
The judge as reader, the reader as judge: literary and legal judgment in Dante, Machaut, and Gower / Rosemarie McGerr
Bohemian Gower: Confessio Amantis, Queen Anne, and Machaut's judgment poems / Linda Burke
Polarized debates, ambivalent judgments: the jugement behaigne and the confessio amantis / Lewis Beer
Part III. Lasting influence
Proust and the amorous fountain: secret architecture or suppressed source? / Camille Naish
Authorial second lives: Machaut, Chaucer, and Philip Roth / R. Barton Palmer.