Introduction--Sara S. Poor and Jana K. Schulman * Female Heroics and the Construction of Gender * Feminine Heroics in Girart de Roussillon--William Burgwinkle * Women Characters and the Limits of Patriarchy in the Poema de Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo--Tom Caldin * Gendering the Maiden Warrior in Old Norse--William Layher * Gender and Genre * From Historical Background to Anxiety Personified--Sarah-Grace Heller * Women in the Shahnameh--Dick Davis * Chaucer's Queer Epic--Eve Salisbury * Monstrous Mates: The Leading Ladies of the Nibelungenlied and Volsunga Saga--Kaaren Grimstad and Ray M. Wakefield * Gendered Violence at Feasts in Icelandic Epic--Jana K. Schulman * Authorship, Patronage, and the Gestures of Lordship * What Hrotsvit Did to Virgil--Kate Olson * Female Nobility, Patronage, and the Making of Castilian-Leonese Epic--Mercedes Vaquero * Beowulf's Queens and the Politics of Eleventh-Century England--Helen Damico * The Politics of Emotion in the Nibelungenlied--Kathryn Starkey

Introduction--Sara S. Poor and Jana K. Schulman * Female Heroics and the Construction of Gender * Ethical Acts and Annihilation: Feminine Heroics in Girart de Roussillon--William Burgwinkle * Women Characters and the Limits of Patriarchy in the Poema de Mio Cid and Mocedades de Rodrigo--Tom Caldin * Caught Between Worlds: Gendering the Maiden Warrior in Old Norse--William Layher * Gender and Genre * Women in the Old French Crusade Cycle and Other Epic Works: From Historical Background to Anxiety Personified--Sarah-Grace Heller * Women in the Shahnameh: Exotics and Natives, Rebellious Legends, and Dutiful Histories--Dick Davis * Chaucer's Queer Epic--Eve Salisbury * Monstrous Mates: The Leading Ladies of the Nibelungenlied and Volsunga saga--Kaaren Grimstad and Ray M. Wakefield * 'A Guest is in the Hall': Gendered Violence at Feasts in Icelandic Epic--Jana K. Schulman * Authorship, Patronage, and the Gestures of Lordship * What Hrotsvit Did to Virgil: Expanding the Boundaries of the Classical Epic in Tenth-Century Ottonian Saxony--Kate Olson * Female Nobility, Patronage, and the Making of Castilian-Leonese Epic--Mercedes Vaquero * Beowulf's Queens and the Politics of Eleventh-century England--Helen Damico * Brunhild's Smile. The Politics of Emotion in the Nibelungenlied--Kathryn Starkey