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Contents ix Acknowledgments 1 Introduction 14 Chapter One Food Fight: Medieval Gastronomy and Literary Convention 50 Chapter Two Uncourtly Table Manners in Arthurian Romance 97 Chapter Three Much Ado about Bacon: The Old French Fabliaux 140 Chapter Four Hungry like the Wolf, Sly as a Fox: Le Roman de Renart 178 Conclusion 183 Notes 197 Bibliography 211 Index vii ...

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