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

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

They were the bestsellers of their time; in the late medieval period, a number of shorter romances and tales, such as Floire et Blancheflor, Partonopeus de Bloi

Medieval Romance is the first study to focus on the deep philosophical underpinnings of the genre's fictional worlds

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