As one of the most important, influential and capacious genres of the middle ages, the romance was exploited for a variety of social and cultural reasons: to ce

Romances were immensely popular with medieval readers, as evidenced by their ubiquity in manuscripts and early print. The essays collected here deal with the te

Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves. Medieval romance narratives glitter with the mat

New approaches to this most fluid of medieval genres, considering in particular its reception and transmission.Romance was the most popular secular literature o

The popular genre of medieval romance explored in its physical, geographical, and literary contexts. The essays in this volume take a representative selection o