Product Description: This collection of essays provide an analysis of medieval romance narrative in Britain. The historical and cultural contexts within which several romances were produced, and their putative patrons and audiences, are the focus of several of the contributions, whilst others discuss romance manuscripts and their scribes, uncovering evidence of careful scribal co-operation and planning...read more

Product Description: Unique in it's impassioned concern for social justice, religous integrity and personal 'truth', but its message inspires rather than compromises its poetic art.