The Cambridge Companion To  MEDIEVAL ROMANCE Roberta L. Krueger   Cambridge University Press.

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The Cambridge Companion

This companion presents fifteen original and engaging essays by leading scholars on one of the most influential genres of Western Literature. Chapters describe the origins of early verse romance in twelfth-century French and Anglo-Norman courts and analyze the evolution of verse and prose romance in France, Germany, England, Italy and Spain throughout the Middle Ages. The companion is intended as an introduction to the voyages, transformations and interrogations of *romance as its fictions travel within and between the linguistic, geo-political, and social boundaries of Europe from 1150 to 1600.

*The term "romance" used today to refer to the narratives of chivalric adventures that were first encountered in medieval courts derives from the Old French expression "mettre en romanz," which means to translate into the vernacular French. Consequently, many kinds of vernacular narratives were dubbed "romans."

The Author

Roberta L. Krueger is the Leonard C. Ferguson Professor of French at Hamilton College