Heather Blurton is Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Dwight F. Reynolds is Distinguished Professor of Arabic Language and Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara

Introduction - Heather Blurton and Dwight F. Reynolds
Part I: Hanging by a thread: unique manuscripts and their place in the 'modern' medieval canon
1. Contemplating books with Usama ibn Munqidh's Book of Contemplation - Paul M. Cobb
2. Dons and dragons: Beowulf and 'popular reading' - Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver
3. Ibn ?azm's ?awq al-?amama (The Neck-Ring of the Dove) - Boris Liebrenz
4. 'Thirty pieces of silver': interpreting anti-Jewish imagery in the Poema de mio Cid manuscript - Ryan D. Giles
5. 'Let no bad song be sung of us': fame, memory and transmission in/and the Chanson de Roland - Sharon Kinoshita
Part II: Medieval bestsellers: reading the 'medieval canon'?
6. World literature and its discontents: reading the life of A?iqar - Daniel L. Selden
7. The Alexander Romance in the age of scribal reproduction: the aesthetics and precariousness of a popular text - Shamma Boyarin
8. Wisdom literature and the medieval bestsellers - Karla Mallette
9. Lost worlds: encyclopedism and riddles in the tale of Tawaddud/Theodor - Christine Chism
Index