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. 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. The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.

This universally excellent collection is an important contribution to the increasingly sophisticated study of medieval romance and its afterlives.

• Introduction: Forms of Transmission of Medieval Romance - Ad Putter and Judith JeffersonKing Orphius and Sir Orfeo, Scotland and England, Memory and Manuscript - Rhiannon PurdieThe Metre of the Tale of Gamelyn - Derek PearsallRhyme Royal and Romance - Elizabeth RobertsonThe Singing of Middle English Romance: Stanza Forms and Contrafacta - Ad PutterDeluxe Copies of Middle English Romance: Scribes and Book Artists - Carol MealeIs Cheuelere Assigne an Alliterative Poem? - Thorlac Turville-PetreLanguage Tests for the Identification of Middle English Genre - Donka MinkovaThe Problem of John Metham's Prosody - Nicholas MyklebustThe Printed Transmission of Medieval Romance from William Caxton to Wynkyn de Worde, 1473-1535 - Jordi Sanchez-MartiCompiling Sacred and Secular: Sir Orfeo and the Otherworlds of Medieval Miscellanies - Michelle De GrootThe Woodville Women, Eleanor Haute, and British Library Royal MS 14 E III - Rebecca Lyons

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. 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. The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.

This universally excellent collection is an important contribution to the increasingly sophisticated study of medieval romance and its afterlives.

• Introduction: Forms of Transmission of Medieval Romance - Ad Putter and Judith JeffersonKing Orphius and Sir Orfeo, Scotland and England, Memory and Manuscript - Rhiannon PurdieThe Metre of the Tale of Gamelyn - Derek PearsallRhyme Royal and Romance - Elizabeth RobertsonThe Singing of Middle English Romance: Stanza Forms and Contrafacta - Ad PutterDeluxe Copies of Middle English Romance: Scribes and Book Artists - Carol MealeIs Cheuelere Assigne an Alliterative Poem? - Thorlac Turville-PetreLanguage Tests for the Identification of Middle English Genre - Donka MinkovaThe Problem of John Metham's Prosody - Nicholas MyklebustThe Printed Transmission of Medieval Romance from William Caxton to Wynkyn de Worde, 1473-1535 - Jordi Sanchez-MartiCompiling Sacred and Secular: Sir Orfeo and the Otherworlds of Medieval Miscellanies - Michelle De GrootThe Woodville Women, Eleanor Haute, and British Library Royal MS 14 E III - Rebecca Lyons

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. 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. The late Derek Pearsall was Emeritus Gurney Professor of Middle English Literature at Harvard University; he wrote extensively on Chaucer, Gower, Langland and Lydgate, including biographies of Chaucer and Lydgate, an edition of the C-text of Langland's Piers Plowman.

This universally excellent collection is an important contribution to the increasingly sophisticated study of medieval romance and its afterlives.

• Introduction: Forms of Transmission of Medieval Romance - Ad Putter and Judith JeffersonKing Orphius and Sir Orfeo, Scotland and England, Memory and Manuscript - Rhiannon PurdieThe Metre of the Tale of Gamelyn - Derek PearsallRhyme Royal and Romance - Elizabeth RobertsonThe Singing of Middle English Romance: Stanza Forms and Contrafacta - Ad PutterDeluxe Copies of Middle English Romance: Scribes and Book Artists - Carol MealeIs Cheuelere Assigne an Alliterative Poem? - Thorlac Turville-PetreLanguage Tests for the Identification of Middle English Genre - Donka MinkovaThe Problem of John Metham's Prosody - Nicholas MyklebustThe Printed Transmission of Medieval Romance from William Caxton to Wynkyn de Worde, 1473-1535 - Jordi Sanchez-MartiCompiling Sacred and Secular: Sir Orfeo and the Otherworlds of Medieval Miscellanies - Michelle De GrootThe Woodville Women, Eleanor Haute, and British Library Royal MS 14 E III - Rebecca Lyons