Introduction / Gloria Allaire, University of Kentucky -- The emergence of courtliness in Wace's Roman de Brut and Roman de Rou: pastimes of the rulers of Brittany and the Dukes of Normandy / Laurence Mathey-Maille, Université du Havre -- Performing the embrace: intertextuality in Bernard de Clairvaux's Sermons on the Song of Songs and Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide / Jeanne A. Nightingale, Miami University of Ohio -- Tower, bower, garden, and forest: hide-and-seek for Courtly lovers / Janina P. Traxler, Manchester University, Indiana -- Marie de France at play: Equitan as Courtly diversion or carnivalesque subversion? / Monica L. Wright, University of Louisiana at Lafayette -- Courtly pastimes and nature in Gottfried von Strassburg's Tristan: reading ecology and hybridity / Christopher R. Clason, Oakland University -- Sî jehent er lebe noch hiute: Courtly play and places of imagination in thirteenth-century German mural cycles / Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand, Appalachian State University -- Fishing for meaning: immersive reading and the Codex Manesse Frontispieces / D. Lyle Dechant. DePauw University -- The Apotheosis of Provençal Fin'amors in Alfonso X's Marian Poetry / Joseph T. Snow, Michigan State University -- The performance of courtliness in the Dits of Guillaume de Machaut / Sara Sturm-Maddox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst -- Blind man's buff: from children's games to pleasure gardens in the late Middle Ages / Kristen M. Figg, Kent State University -- Amorous and poetic games in Christine de Pizan's Queen's Manuscript (London, British Library, MS Harley 4431) / Lori J. Walters, The Florida State University -- Medieval(ist) pastimes, or What's a Belle dame Doing in a Place like Hatfield House? / Joan E. McRae, Middle Tennessee State University -- Performative Courtliness in Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur / Shawn Phillip Cooper, Oakland Community College -- Ritual, public pageantry, and urban justice: the Seizaine de mai of Bourges / Donald Maddox, University of Massachusetts, Amherst -- Ritterspiele: the Spectacle of the Courtly Tournament in Late Medieval Germany / Natalie Anderson, Independent Scholar -- Bayard / Baiardo: the equine protagonist from French Chansons de geste to Italian Chivalric Poems / Maurizio Mazzoni, Independent Scholar -- List of contributors -- Index.