Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- PART I: THE MATTER OF BRITAIN -- 1 Arthurian Imagination and the "Makyng" of History -- 2 Arthurian Futurism and British Destiny -- PART II: ROMANCING THE THRONE -- 3 Disavowing Romance: Colonial Loss and Stories of the Past -- 4 "In Contrayez Straunge": Sovereign Rivals, Fantasies of Gender, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- 5 Dangerous Liaisons: Disloyalty, Adultery, and the Tragedy of Romance -- PART III: INSULAR LOSSES -- 6 Military Intimacies: The Pleasures and Pains of Conquest -- 7 "Necessary" Losses: Royal Death and English Remembrance -- Afterword: Lost Books -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- Acknowledgments.