Introduction: The Mother's Mark and the Maternal Monster -- Women's Secrets and Men's Interests: Rituals of Childbirth and Northern Octavian -- "That Moder Ever Hym Fed": Nursing and Other Anthropophagies in Sir Gowther -- "Youre Owene Thyng:" The Clerk's Tale and Fantasies of Autonomous Male Reproduction -- "A Mooder He Hath, But Fader Hath He Noon:" Maternal Transmission and Fatherless Sons: the Man of Law's Tale -- Forgetting Eleanor: Richard Coer de Lyon and England's Maternal Aporia -- Monstrous Maternity and the Mother-Mark: Melusine as Genealogical Phantom.
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