Detailed readings of 10, and lighter discussions of many others, of the 150 medieval French bawdy poems that scholars generally find it necessary to discuss as a whole, thereby missing important individual characteristics.

Norris J Lacy (Pennsylvania State University USA).

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Questions of Genre; Chapter 3 The Conservatism of the Fabliaux; Chapter 4 Courtliness and the Fabliaux; Chapter 5 Women in the Fabliaux; Chapter 6 Language in the Fabliaux; Chapter 7 The Narrator's Voice; Chapter 8 The Humor of the Fabliaux; Chapter 9 Closure; Chapter 10 Conclusion;