E. Jane Burns is L. M. Slifkin Distinguished Term Professor in the Curriculum in Women's studies at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She is the author of "Courtly Love Undressed: Reading Through Clothes in Medieval French Culture, Bodytalk: When Women Speak in Old French Literature, Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle," and translator of "The Quest for the Holy in Lancelot-Grail: The Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate in Translation," She co-edited with Roberta L. Krueger the special issue of "Romance Notes" on "Courtly Ideology and Woman's Place in Old French Literature,...