Linda Marie Rouillard is Professor of French, Chair of World Languages and Cultures, University of Toledo, USA.

1. Chapter 1 Introduction: Too Close for Comfort

2. Chapter 2 Kinship Matters: An Immodest Proposal

2.1 Medieval Definitions and Examples of Incest

2.2 Incest from Antiquity to the Middle Ages

2.3 Anthropological Definitions of Incest

3. Chapter 3 Heroines, Vilains, and Barbarians in Other Medieval Incest Narratives

3.1 La Manekine and Medieval Hungary

4. Medieval Marriage, Misogamy, and Misogyny

4.2 Monstrous Marriage

4.3 Contaminated Rhetoric

4.4 Containing Desire: Ritual Abstinence

5. Chapter 5 The Hand of Forgiveness

6. Chapter 6 Regurgitation, Restitution, Resurrection, and Relics

7. Chapter 7 Spirit and Letter: Speech Acts in Selected Medieval Texts

8. Chapter 8 Conclusion: The Legacy of the Incest Motif