Table of Contents:
  • The Stag of Love
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. Literature and the Hunt
  • Hunting Practice and Ceremony
  • The Iconography of the Stag
  • The Hunt as a Literary Structure
  • II. The Chase in Medieval Narrative
  • The Sacred Chase: Aelfric's Passion of St. Eustace
  • The Mortal Chase: Siegfried's Death in the Nibelungenlied
  • The Instructive Chase: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  • III. The Love Chase
  • Images of the Love Chase from Antiquity
  • Ovid and the Middle Ages
  • Combined Forms of the Love Chase in Medieval Literature
  • The Sacred Chase Transformed: Love and the Other WorldThe Mortal Chase Transformed: The Poet's Vision of the Death of the Hart
  • The Instructive Chase Transformed: Love as the Latter End of Knowledge
  • IV. Medieval Allegories of the Love Chase
  • France: The Sanguinary Stag
  • Li dis dou cerf amoreus : The Stag of Love
  • L'Amoureuse Prise : Love's Capture
  • Le dit du cerf blanc : The White Stag
  • Germany: The Elusive Quarry
  • Before Hadamar von Laber
  • Hadamar von Laber: Die Jagd
  • Epilogue: After Hadamar
  • Germany
  • Lyric Poems
  • Altercative Poems
  • Didactic PoemsFrance
  • La Chasse of Octovien de Saint-Gelais
  • England and France: Song, Sonnet, and Metaphor
  • Index