Medieval Folklore
Subtitle: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
Contributors: Carl Lindahl (Editor); John McNamara (Editor); John Lindow (Editor)
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: May 23, 2002
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780195147711
First sentence: Accused Queen. Most often, a woman who is first abused in her parents' home and later slandered and otherwise persecuted in the home of her husband; more rarely, a woman falsely charged with adultery; a common figure in late-medieval romances, chronicles, and saints' lives, also known as the Calumniated Woman.
Notes: Alphabetical list of entries:

Accused Queen -- Advent -- Amicus et Amelius -- Amulet and Talisman -- Andrew’s Day, Saint -- Angels -- Anglo-Saxon Chronicle -- Animal Tale -- Anne, Saint -- Annwfn -- Apollonius of Tyre -- Arabic-Islamic Tradition -- Arthur -- Arthurian Lore-- Assassins Nizari Ismailis -- Attila & the Huns -- 

Bagpipe -- Bal des ardents -- Ballad -- Baltic Tradition -- Bear -- Becket, St. Thomas -- Bede the Venerable -- Beltane -- Beowulf -- Berserks -- Bestiary -- Black Death -- Blood -- Books of Hous -- Bowed Strings -- Boy Bishop, Feast of the -- Brigid, St. -- Brutus -- Burgundian Cycle -- Burial Mounds -- 

Caedmon -- Camlan -- Candlemas -- Cantar de mio Cid -- Carnival -- Carol -- Catherine of Alexandria, St. -- Celtic Mythology -- Chanson de Geste -- Chanson de Roland -- Charivari -- Charlemagne -- Charms -- Chaucer, Geoffrey -- Childbirth -- Chrétien de Troyes -- Christmas -- Cockaigne, Land of -- Courtly Love -- Cross -- Crusades -- Cuckold -- Culhwch and Olwen -- 

Dance -- Dance of Death -- Dante Alighieri -- David, St. -- Decameron -- Dragon-- Drama -- Dreams and Dream Poetry -- Druids -- Dwarfs -- 

Eddic Poetry -- English Tradition : Anglo-Saxon period -- English Tradition : Middle English period -- Eucharist -- Eulenspiegel -- Evil Eye -- Exemplum -- 

Fable -- Fabliau -- Fairies -- Fairy Lover -- Fenian Cycle -- Festivals and Celebrations -- Feud -- Finnic Song -- Finno-Ugric Traditions -- Flyting -- Folklore -- Folktale -- Foodways -- Fool -- Fools, feast of -- Foreign Races -- Frame tale -- French Tradition -- Funeral Customs and Burial Rites -- 

Games and Play -- Gargoyles -- Gawain -- Groffrey of Monmouth -- George, St. -- Gerald of Wales -- German tradition -- Giants -- Gildas -- Godiva, Lady -- Gododdin, Y -- Golem -- Grail -- Grain Miracle -- Green Man -- Griffin -- Guinefort,St. -- Guy of Warwick -- Gwynn ap Nudd --

Hamlet -- Harp -- Harrowing of Hell -- Harun al-Rashid -- Harvest festivals and rituals -- Hell -- Hispanic tradition -- Homosexuality (male) -- Hungarian tradition -- 

Iconography -- Inns and taverns -- Irish tradition -- Italian tradition -- 

James the Elder, Saint -- Jesus Christ -- Jewish tradition -- Jews, stereotypes of -- Joan of Arc, Saint -- Joseph, Saint -- Judah the Pious -- Judith -- Knight  -- Knights Templar -- 

Lear, King -- Legend -- Lesbian -- Lilith -- Loathly lady -- Lugnasa -- 

Mabinogi -- Maelgwn Gwynedd -- Magic -- Magic manuals -- Mandeville’s travels -- Manuscript marginalia -- Map, Walter -- Marie de France -- Marriage traditions -- Martinmas -- Mary Magdalen, Saint -- Masking -- Maxen wledig -- Medicine -- Memento mori -- Merlin -- Mermaid -- Midsummer -- Minstrel -- Misericords -- Monks -- Morgan le Fay -- Motif -- Myrddin -- Myth -- 

Names, personal -- Names, place -- Nennius -- New year’s -- Nibelungenlied -- Nightmare -- Nine worthies -- Novella -- Nuns -- 

Olaf, Saint -- Orality and literacy -- Ordeal -- Otherworldly journey -- Outlaw -- Owain, Saint -- Owain Glyndwr -- 

Passover Haggadah -- Patrick, Saint -- Peasants  -- Peasants’ revolts -- Phallic imagery -- Plow and plowing -- Prester John -- Proverbs -- Puppets  and puppet plays -- Purgatory -- Purim -- 

Relics -- Richard the Lion-heart -- Riddle -- Rites of passage -- Robert of Sicily -- Robin Hood -- Romance -- Runes and runic inscriptions -- 

Sagas of Icelanders -- Saints, cults of the -- Samhain -- Saracen princess -- Satan -- Sauna -- Scandinavian mythology -- Scandinavian tradition -- Scatology -- Scottish tradition -- Seven sages, the -- Seven sleepers of Ephesus -- Shamanism -- Sheela-na-gig -- Ships -- Sibyl -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Skis and skiing -- Slavic tradition, east -- Sleeping king -- Snori Sturluson’s Edda -- Spinning and weaving -- Spirits and ghosts -- Supernatural weapons -- Sutton Hoo -- Swan knight -- Sword -- Sword dance -- 

Taliesin -- Tannhäuser -- Thomas Rhymer -- Thor -- Thousand and one nights -- Totem -- Tournament -- Travel literature -- Triads of the island of Britain -- Trickster -- Tristan and Iseut -- 

Ulster -- Unibos -- Unicorn -- 

Valentine’s day -- Valkyries -- Vampire -- Virgin Mary -- Votive offerings -- 

Wandering Jew -- Wells and springs -- Welsh tradition -- Wild man -- Wild woman -- William of Orange -- Wine -- Witchcraft -- Wolf and werewolf -- Woman warrior -- World turned upside down.