Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-279) and index.
The shape of romance in medieval France / Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner -- Marvels of translation and crises of transition in the romances of Antiquity / Christopher Baswell -- Romance and other genres / Simon Gaunt -- The manuscript context of medieval romance / Sylvia Huot -- Courts, clerks, and courtly love / Sarah Kay -- The societal role of chivalry in romance : northwestern Europe / Richard Kaeuper -- The other worlds of romance / Jeff Rider -- Questions of gender in Old French courtly romance / Roberta L. Krueger -- Women and men in late medieval English romance / Sheila Fisher -- The evolution and legacy of French prose romance / Norris J. Lacy -- Medieval German romance / Ann Marie Rasmussen -- Chivalry and medieval Italian romance / F. Regina Psaki -- Gawain and popular chivalric romance in Britain / Thomas Hahn -- Middle English romance : family, marriage, intimacy / Felicity Riddy -- Romance at the crossroads : medieval Spanish paradigms and Cervantine revisions / Marina S. Brownlee.