| | | Preface by Glyn S. Burgess | | |
| | | Acknowledgments | | |
| | | Introduction by Chantal A. Marechal | | 1 |
| | | Marie de France dans ses fables by Hans R. Runte | | 28 |
| | | The Woman's Voice in the Fables of Marie de France by Harriet Spiegel | | 45 |
| | | The Fables of Marie de France: A Mirror of Princes by Karen K. Jambeck | | 59 |
| | | "Diversement comencier" in the Lais of Marie de France by Douglas Kelly | | 107 |
| | | Antiquities in Marie's Lais by Emanuel J. Mickel, Jr. | | 123 |
| | | Marie de France and the Folktale: Narrative Devices of the Marchen and her Lais by Judith Rice Rothchild | | 138 |
| | | The Celtic Origins of the Chess Symbolism in Milun and Eliduc by Maria A. Rebbert | | 148 |
| | | Christian Allusion and Divine Justice in Yonec by Susan Johnson | | 161 |
| | | The Problem of the Tournament in Chaitivel by Elizabeth Wilson Poe | | 175 |
| | | Metamorphosis and Language in the Lay of Bisclavret by Kathryn I. Holten | | 193 |
| | | The Lais of Marie de France and Carol Gilligan's Theory of the Psychology of Women by Heather Arden | | 212 |
| | | The Sexual and Textual Politics of Marie's Poetics by Eva Rosenn | | 225 |
| | | The Changing Figure of the Male: the Revenge of the Female Storyteller by Michelle A. Freeman | | 243 |
| | | Double Vision: Love and Envy in the Lais by Sarah Spence | | 262 |
| | | Desire, Social Reproduction, and Marie's Guigemar by Robert M. Stein | | 280 |
