Romance Rewritten

ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. MEGAN G. LEITCH is the Professor and Chair of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations. Corinne Saunders is Professor of Medieval Literature at the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. JULIA BOFFEY is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary University of London. NEIL CARTLIDGE is Professor in the Department of English Studies at the University of Durham, UK. R.F. YEAGER is Emeritus Professor of English Literature and Language, University of West Florida.

With its variously sophisticated and insightful analyses [this collection] makes a worthy and welcome contribution.

• Introduction. Middle English Romance: The Motifs and the Critics - Medieval Romance Mischief - Neil CartlidgeRewriting Chivalric Encounters: Cultural Anxieties and Social Critique in the Fourteenth Century - Marcel EliasMalory's Comedy - Christopher CannonBeginning with the Ending: Narrative Techniques and their Significance in Chaucer's Knight's Tale - Jill MannThe Riddle of 'Apollonius': 'A Bok for King Richardes Sake' - Robert F. YeagerMalory and the Post-Vulgate Cycle - Elizabeth ArchibaldTowards a Gestural Lexicon of Medieval English Romance - Barry A WindeattGiving Freely in Sir Cleges: the Economy of Salvation and the Gift of Romance - Marco NievergeltFrom Magic to Miracle: Reframing Chevalere Assigne - Miriam Edlich-MuthLifting the Veil: Voices, Visions and Destiny in Malory's Morte Darthur - Corinne SaundersThe Intelligence of The Court of Love - Ad PutterThe Squire of Low Degree and the Penumbra of Romance Narrative in the Early Sixteenth Century - Julia BoffeyThe Squire of Low Degree and the Penumbra of Romance Narrative in the Early Sixteenth Century - A S G EdwardsContested Chivalry: Youth at War in Walter Scott and Charlotte M. Yonge - Andrew Lynch