Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance

VICTORIA FLOOD is Associate Professor in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. MEGAN G. LEITCH is the Professor and Chair of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. VICTORIA FLOOD is Associate Professor in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham. MEGAN G. LEITCH is the Professor and Chair of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. Helen Fulton is Chair of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham, UK. CORYJAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford.

• List of ContributorsList of Abbreviations Introduction: Insular Romance in Translation: New ApproachesVictoria Flood and Megan G. Leitch 1. Romantic Wales: Imagining Wales in Medieval Insular RomanceHelen Fulton 2. 'Something remains which is not open to my understanding': Enigmatic Marvels in Welsh Otherworld Narratives and Latin Arthurian RomanceJessica J. Lockhart 3. The Supernatural Company in Cultural Translation: Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Roman De La Rose TraditionVictoria Flood 4. Women and Werewolves: William of Palerne in Three CulturesHelen Cooper 5. 'Better a valiant squire than a cowardly knight': Gender in Guruns strengleikr (The Lay of Gurun)Carl Phelpstead 6. 'Vinegar upon Nitre'? Walter Map's Romance of 'Sadius and Galo'Neil Cartlidge 7. The Three Barriers to Closure in Hue de Rotelande's Ipomedon and the Middle English TranslationsRebecca Newby 8. Trojan Trash? The Seege or Batayle of Troye and the Learning of 'Popular' RomanceVenetia Bridges 9. Poaching Romance: Fan Fiction Theory and Shared Medieval NarrativesCory James Rushton 10. Between Epic and Romance: The Matter of England and the Chansons de GesteAisling Byrne 11. Geographies of Loss: Cilician Armenia and the Prose Romance of MelusineJan Shaw 12. 'All this will not comfort me': Romancing the Ballad in The Squire of Low DegreeLaura Ashe 13. Merchants in Shining Armour: Chivalrous Interventions and Social Mobility in Late Middle English RomanceMegan G. Leitch Index

The thirteen essays in this collection are a testament to the critical distance travelled by medieval romance scholars in recent decades. The volume calls for a reconfiguration of critical approaches to romance on several fronts, thereby offering a timely and valuable contribution to wider efforts to challenge certain scholarly preconceptions that have become deeply ingrained in the field.