Romances -- General

John Stevens,    Medieval Romance: themes & approaches   Hutchinson 73

C. Bullock Davies   MAE 42 73   Form of the Breton lay

Marg. Hurley   Genre 8 73   Saints legends & romance: secularization of structure & motif

K. Hume   PQ 53 74   Formal Nature of ME romance

J. B. Beston   Whiting F/S   Knowledge of breton lai in 14th c England    In Benson's The Learned and the Lewed    Harvard 74

Urs Durmuller,    Swiss St. in Eng. '75   Narrative possibilities of tail-rhyme stanza

F. Jameson   NLH 7 75   Magical narratives: romance as genre

N. Frye,    The secular scripture: structure of romance   Harvard 76

Helen Cooper   M&H 7 76   Magic that does not work

Gisela Guddat-Figge,    Cat. of MSS containing ME Romances   Munich 76

P. Strohm   Genre 10 77   The origin & meaning of ME romance

Susan Wittig   NM 78 77   Formulaic style in ME romance

M. Manzalaoui   Et. Ang. 30 77   The hero transformed: theme in late medieval narrative

Paul Scanlon   Library 33 78   Check-list of prose romances in English 1474-1603

Diana Childress   PQ 57 78   Between Romance & Legend: Secular hagiography in ME lit. 

L. Sklute   Genre 11 78   Ambiguity of ethical norms in courtly rom.

Susan Wittig,    Stylistic & Narrative Structures in ME rom.    Texas 78

J. Finlayson   ChauR 15 80   Definitions of ME romance

J. M. Ganim   The lit. rev. 25 80   History & consciousness in ME romance

D. Brewer,    Symbolic Stories: traditional narratives of the family drama in Eng. lit.   Brewer 80

D. H. Green,    Irony in the med. romance   CUP 80

A. V. C. Schmidt & N. Jacobs (ed.),    Medieval English Romances   Hodder & S. 80

Anne Wilson   Traditional romance and tale: How stories mean   Brewer 80

Susan Dannenbaum   RPhil 35 81-2   A-N romances of English heroes: Ancestral romance?

Joachim Bumke,    The Concept of Knighthood in M.A. (trans.)   AMS 82

Lee C. Ramsey,    Chivalric romances: popular lit. in Med. Eng.   Indiana 83

Sarah Kay   ZfFSL 93 83   Epic formula: a reversed definition

John Finlayson   ChauR 19 84-85   Form of ME Lay

S. Knight   Aers, Med. Lit.   The social function of the ME romances    Harvester 86

Carol Fewster,    Traditionality & Genre in ME Romance   Brewer 86

Susan Crane,    Insular Romance: Politics, Faith & Culture in AN & ME   Calif. 86

Joanne A. Rice,    ME Romance: Annot. Bibliog. 1955-83   Garland 87

W. R. J. Barron,    English Med. Romance (Lit. in Eng. series)   Longman 87

Michael Chestnutt   Minstrel reciters & the enigma of the ME rom.    Culture & History 2 87 48-67

D. Brewer,    Studies in Med. Eng. Romances (repr. essays)   Brewer 88

D. V. Harrington   M&H 16 88   Redefining the ME Breton lay

Andrea Hopkins,    The sinful Knights: ME penitential rom.    OUP 90

Murray McGillivray,    Memorization in the Transmission of ME Roms.    Garland 90

A. S. G. Edwards   ME Romance: Limits of Editing, Criticism   In Machan's Med. Lit.   SUNY 91

Anna Reuters,    Friendship and love in ME metr. rom. 1991

M. Mills, J. Fellows, C. Meale (eds.),    Romance in Med. England   Brewer 91

Jenny Fellows   Rom. in Med. Eng. 91   Editing ME romances

J. J. Thompson   Rom. in Med. Eng. 91   Lincoln 91, Adv.19.3.1 and Ff.1.6

Gillian Rogers   Rom. in Med. Eng. 91   Percy folio

Lynne Blanchfield   Rom. in Med. Eng. 91   Ashmole 61

D. Burnley   Rom. in Med. Eng. 91   Comforting the troops

Andrew Taylor   YES 22 92   Minstrel narration in the ME romances

Phillipa Hardman   YES 22 92   Fitt divisions in ME rom. 

Phillipa Hardman   RMS 18 92   Scholars retelling romances

Anne Wilson   YES 22 92   The critic & the use of magic in narrative

Jennifer Fellows   RMS 19 93   St George as romance hero

Corinne Saunders,    The forest of med. romance   Brewer 93

Geraldine Barnes,    Counsel and strategy in M.E. romance   Brewer 93

Flora Alexander   Women as lovers in ME romance   In Carol Meale (ed.),    Women & Lit. 1993

J. Fellows   Mothers in ME romance   In Meale, Women & Lit. 1993

E. Cuilleanain & J. Pheifer (eds.),    Noble and Joyous Histories: Eng. romances 1375-1650   Dublin 1993

J. Donatelli   EMS 4 93   The Percy Folio MS: a 17th century context for ME poetry

Carol Meale (ed.),    Readings in Med. Eng. Romance   Brewer 94

J. Thompson   Cursor Mundi, `Inglis' and romance   In Meale, Readings 94

Karen Pratt (ed.),    Shifts and transpositions in med. narrative   (Elspeth Kennedy Studies)   Brewer 94

Nancy Bradbury   Literacy, orality, and the poetics of ME romance   In Mark 

Amodio (ed.)    Oral poetics in ME poetry    1994

R. Dalrymple   MAE 63 94   Literary use of religious formulae in ME rom.

Karen Winstead   ChYb 2 95   Pious laywomen in ME romance

A. Laskaya & E. Salisbury (eds.),    The ME Breton Lays    TEAMS 95

Murray Evans,    Rereading ME romance: MS layout, decoration and the rhetoric of composite structure   McGill/Queens 95

Stephen Shepherd, ed.   ME romances   Norton Crit. Ed. 95

R. B. Burlin   ChauR 30 95-6    ME romance: the structure of genre

J. Fellows, R. Field, G. Rogers & J. Weiss (eds.),    Romance-reading on the book: essays in med. narrative for M. Mills   Wales 96

J. Thompson   Caligula A.ii, part 1   In Mills F/S 96

D. Huws   Porkington 10   In Mills F/S 96

Lynne Blanchfield   Ashmole 61   In Mills F/S 96

S. Shepherd   MAE 65 96   ME Pseudo-Turpin chronicle

N. Jacobs   Burrow F/S 97   Ricardian romance? critiques and vindications

M. Hebron,    The medieval siege: theme and image in med. romance   OUP 97

John H. Perry   PQ 76 97   Opening the secret - marriage, narration, & nascent subjectivity in ME romance

Geraldine Heng,    Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the genesis of med. romance, in Jnl of Feminist Cultural Studies 10 1998 98-174

Tracy Adams   Neoph. 82 98   Printing & the transformation of ME romance

J. Finlayson   ChauR 33 98-9   The marvellous in ME romance

Roberta Krueger (ed.),    Cambridge Companion to med. romance   CUP 00

Ad Putter & Jane Gilbert (eds.),    The spirit of med. English popular romance   Longman 00

Michelle Sweeney,    Magic in med. romance   Four Courts 00

Rosalind Field (ed.),    Tradition and Transformation in Med. Romance   Brewer 00