This Companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western literature. Chapters describe

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

An examination of what the translation of medieval French texts into different European languages can reveal about the differences between cultures.

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

Readers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic figure of M lusine - a beautiful fairy woman cursed to transform into a half-serpent once a week, whose part-