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Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on translations; Introduction: living death; Chapter 1 Roland and the second death; Chapter 2 The knight as Thing: courtly love in the non-cyclic prose Lancelot; Chapter 3 The ubi sunt topos in Middle French: sad stories of the death of kings; Chapter 4 Ceci n'est pas une marguerite: anamorphosis in Pearl; Chapter 5 Becoming woman in Chaucer: on ne naît pas femme, on le devient en mourant; Conclusion: living dead or dead-in-life?; Notes; Bibliography; Index