Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 Defining twelfth-century fictionality -- CHAPTER 2 Vernacular fiction in the twelfth century -- PREDECESSORS -- FINDING A PALCE FOR FICTION -- CHAPTER 3 Fictive orality -- EXCURSUS: ORALITY AND PERFOMANCE IN EARLY FRENCH ROMANCE -- CHAPTER 4 Fiction and Wolfram's Parzival -- INTERTEXTUALITY -- SOURCES -- HISTORY -- CHAPTER 5 Fiction and structure -- ORDO NARRATIONIS -- TYPOLOGY -- FOLKTALE PATTERN -- DOUBLE CYCLE -- CHAPTER 6 Fiction and history -- TYPES OF NARRATIVE -- MATIÈRE DE ROME -- MATIÈRE DE BRETAGNE -- GENESIS OF MEDIEVAL FICTIONALITY -- Notes -- 1. DEFINING TWELFTH-CENTURY FICTIONALITY -- 2. VERNACULAR FICTION IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY -- 3. FICTIVE ORALITY -- 4. FICTION AND WOLFRAM'S PARZIVAL -- 5. FICTION AND STRUCTURE -- 6. FICTION AND HISTORY -- Bibliography -- PRIMARY SOURCES -- Greek and Latin sources -- Vernacular sources -- SECONDARY LITERATURE -- Index of names.