Table of Contents

Introduction - Rosalind Field
Thomas and the earl: literary and historical contexts for the Romance of Horn -
`Herkeneth aright': reading Gamelyn for text not context - Stephen Knight
The Wardship Romance: a new methodology -
Middle English romance and the Gesta Romanorum - Diane Speed
Sir Amadance and the undisenchanted bride: the relation of the Middle English romance to the folk tradition of `The Grateful Dead'Dead' - Elizabeth Williams
The Sege of Melayne: a fifteenth-century reading - Phillipa Hardman
Identity, narrative and participation: defining a context for the middle English Charlemagne romances - Robert Warm
Caxton's concept of `Historical Romance' within the context of the crusades: conviction rhetoric and sales strategy - Joerg O Fichte
Chaucerian Minstrelsy: Sir Thopas, Troilus and Criseyde and English metrical romance - Nancy Mason Bradbury
`Redinge of Romance' in Gower's Confessio Amantis - Jeremy Dimmick
The Ide and Olive episode in Lord Berners's Huon of Burdeux - Elizabeth Archibald
The strange history of Valentine and Orson - Helen Cooper

About the Author

ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. PHILLIPA HARDMAN is Reader in Medieval English Literature (retired) at the University of Reading.

Reviews

A very strong collection of essays.
*MLR*