Introduction. Crime, transgression, and deviancy : behaviors that defines us all / Albrecht Classen and Connie Scarborough -- Le "crime épique" et sa punition : quelques exemples (XIIe-XIIIe siècles) / Bernard Ribémont -- "I know how to be a whore and thief" : the poet's reputation: troubadours, ancestors of poètes maudits? / Susanna Niiranen -- The law, letter and spirit : language, transgression and justice in three Medieval German epic poems / Christopher R. Clason -- Crime, punishment and the hybrid in Medieval French romance : Robert the Devil and Geoffrey Big Tooth / Stacey Hahn -- Judicium Dei, vulgaris popularisque sensus : survival of customary justice and resistance to its displacement by the "new" Ordines iudiciorum as evidenced by francophonic literature of the High Middle Ages / Scott L. Taylor -- Crime and violence in the Middle Ages : the cases of Heinrich der Glichezare's Reinhard Fuchs and Wernher der Gartenære's Helmbrecht / Albrecht Classen -- The function of projected pain : the poetry of François Villon and the gift of self / John Gough -- Retribution in Gamelyn : a case in the courts / Jean E. Jost -- Contra signum nostrum : the symbolism of lèse-majesté under Philip VI Valois / Jolanta N. Komornicka -- Women as victims and criminals in the Siete partidas / Connie L. Scarborough -- Theft in Juan Manuel's El conde Lucanor / Maria Cecilia Ruiz -- Competition for the prisoner's body : wardens and jailers in fourteenth-century Southern France / Patricia Turning -- The host on the doorstep : perpetrators, victims, and bystanders in an alleged host desecration in fourteenth-century Austria / Birgit Wiedl -- Does the punishment fit the crime? : Chaucer's Physician's tale and the worlds of judgment / Daniel F. Pigg -- Deviancy in the Late Middle Ages : the crimes and punishment of Gilles de Rais / Lia B. Ross -- The celebratory conical hat in La Celestina / John Beusterien -- Equal opportunity vengeance in the Heptaméron of Marguerite de Navarre / Kathleen M. Llewellyn -- Crimes et châtiments d'exception en France au temps des Guerres de Religion : l'utopie judiciaire des Commentaires de Monluc (livres V à VII) / Nicolas Lombart -- The Amsterdam Spinhuis and the "art" of correction / Martha Moffitt Peacock -- Pimping for the Fairy Queen : some cozeners in Shakespeare's England / Thomas Willard -- Réflexions de Montaigne sur le châtiment des criminels / Denis Bjaï -- The ultimate crime : cannibalism in Early Modern minds and imaginations / Allison P. Coudert -- Punishment post mortem : the crime of suicide in Early Modern Austria and Sweden / Evelyne Luef.