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

IntroductionWhen Romance Comes True - Helen CooperThe Curious History of the Matter of England - Rosalind FieldHow English are the English Charlemagne Romances? - Phillipa Hardman and Marianne AilesThe Sege of Melayne; or, How the French Screwed Up and 'Oure Brettons Rescued Them - Elizabeth BerlingsRomance Society and its Discontents: Romance Motifs and Romance Consequence s in The Song of Dermot and the Normans in Ireland - Simon Meecham-JonesEngland, Ireland and Iberia in Olyuer of Castylle: The View from Burgundy - Elizabeth WilliamsThe Alliterative Siege of Jerusalem: The Poetics of Destruction - Arlyn DiamondThe Peace of the Roads: Authority and auctoritas in Medieval Romance - Robert RouseThe Hero and his Realm in Medieval English Romance - Laura AsheThe Courteous Warrior: Epic, Romance and Comedy in Boeve de Haumtone - Judith WeissRewriting Divine Favour - Ivana DjordjevicBodily Narratives: Illness, Medicine and Healing in Middle English Romance - Corinne Saunders