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

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

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

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

A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.