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. Considers such elements as the conservatism, courtliness, women, language, t

First published in 1993. This volume is th author's observations of his reading of Fabliaux in order to observe their materials, methods and to evaluate theeffect of those methods. He looks at 150 texts in order to uncover the indivdual fabliau, rather than treat them as a whole genre.