New essays by outstanding European and American medievalists on major aspects of the most enduring medieval epic.

Introduction: The Challenge of Gottfried's Tristan - Will Hasty
Humanism in the High Middle Ages: The Case of Gottfried's Tristan - Alois Wolf
Gottfried's Strasbourg: The City and Its People - Michael S. Batts
Gottfried's Adaptation of the Story of Riwalin and Blanscheflur - Danielle Buschinger
This drink will be the death of you: Interpreting the Love Potion in Gottfried's Tristan - Sidney M. Johnson
God, Religion, and Ambiguity in Tristan - Nigel Harris
The Female Figures in Gottfried's Tristan and Isolde - Ann Marie Rasmussen
The Performance of Love: Tristan and Isolde at Court - Will Hasty
Duplicity and Duplexity: The Isolde of the White Hands Sequence - Neil Thomas
Between Epic and Lyric Poetry: The Originality of Gottfried's Tristan - Daniel Rocher
History, Fable and Love: Gottfried, Thomas, and the Matter of Britain - Adrian Stevens
The Medieval Reception of Gottfried's Tristan - Marion E. Gibbs
The Modern Reception of Gottfried's Tristan and the Medieval Legend of Tristan and Isolde - Ulrich Mueller