Timothy S. Jones is an adjunct professor of English at the University of Minnesota and the University of St. Thomas. David A. Sprunger is the current holder of the Walther G. Prausnitz Endowed Chair in English at Concordia College.

Introduction: The Marvelous Imagination The Medieval Other: The Middle Ages as Other by Paul Freedman Marvelous Peoples or Marvelous Races? Race and the Anglo-Saxon Wonders of the East by Greta Austin Wonders of the Beast: India in Classical and Medieval Literature by Andrea Rossi-Reder The Book of John Mandeville and the Geography of Identity by Martin Camargo Froissart's Debate of the Horse and the Greyhound: Companion Animals and Signs of Social Status in the Fourteenth Century by Kristen M. Figg The Miracle of the Lengthened Beam in Apocryphal and Hagiographic Tradition by Thomas N. Hall Falling Giants and Floating Lead: Scholastic History in the Middle English Cleanness by Michael W. Twomey From Monster to Martyr: The Old English Legend of Saint Christopher by Joyce Tally Lionarons Fighting Men, Fighting Monsters: Outlawry, Masculinity, and Identity in the Gesta Herewardi by Timothy S. Jones Monsters of Misogyny: Bigorne and Chicheface-suite et fin? by Malcolm Jones Depicting the Insane: A Thirteenth-Century Case Study by David A. Sprunger Magic and Metafiction in The Franklin's Tale: Chaucer's Clerk of Orleans as Double of the Franklin by Paul Battles Portentous Births and the Monstrous Imagination in Renaissance Culture by Norman R. Smith The Nude Cyclops in the Costume Book by Mary Baine Campbell Contributers