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

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