Romance Reading on the Book

Dr Jennifer Fellows studied at London and Cambridge and now works as a freelance editor in academic publishing; she is Assistant Editor at Medium Aevum. Her own published work is mainly on Middle English romances and on the theory and practice of editing medieval texts.

• Biographical sketch, James Ogden; a list of the writings of Maldwyn Mills 1962-95, Desmond Slay; introduction, R.P. Field and Judy Weiss; The wars of Alexander - from reality to romance, W.R.J. Barron; the branching tree of medieval narrative - Welsh cainc and French branche, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan; Madness in Sir Orfeo, Derek Pearsall; cloaking desire - re-reading Emare, Margaret Robson; Malory's Mordred and the Morte Arthure, P.J.C. Field; 'Illuminat with lawte, and with lufe lasit' - Gawain gives Arthur a lesson in magnanimity, Gillian Rogers; No poet has his travesty alone - The Awntyrs off Arthure - jests and jousts, Rosamund Allen; the pattern of Providence in Chevelere Assigne, Diane Speed; 'A damsell by herself alone' - images of magic and femininity from Lanval to Sir Lambewell, Elizabeth Williams; Looking behind the book - MS Cotton Caligula A.ii, part 1, and the experiences of its texts, John J. Thompson; MS Porkington 10 and its scribes, Daniel Huws; Rate revisited - the compilation of the narrative works in MS Ashmole 61, Lynne S. Blanchfield; 'Prenes: engre' - an early sixteenth century presentation copy of The Erle of Tolous, Carol M. Meale; Robert Parry's Moderatus - a study in Elizabeth romance, John Simons; Bevis redivivus - the printed editions of Sir Bevis of Hampton, Jennifer Fellows.