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

Studies of how the physical manifests itself in medieval romance - and medieval romances as objects themselves.

Theoretically savvy and polemical arguments about a broad range of French, Middle English, and Mediterranean romances, that will revise scholars' and students'

Romance studies from the twelfth century to the era of the printed book.

A wide-ranging collection on one of the most interesting features of medieval romance.