Boundaries in Medieval Romance

NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham, UK. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. JUDITH WEISS is a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, UK. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford. MARIANNE AILES is Professor of French at the University of Bristol. PHILLIPA HARDMAN is Reader in Medieval English Literature (retired) at the University of Reading. ROBERT ROUSE Associate Professor, Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

• 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

[This] compelling volume will be of lasting value both to existing experts and to those newer to the medieval romance genre: it is a strong, well-balanced, well-edited, and fluently written selection, and should become a mainstay work of reference for future scholarship.