Introduction Roberta L. Krueger; 1. For love and for lovers': the origins of romance Laura Ashe; 2. The manuscript contexts of medieval romance Keith Busby; 3. Matters of form: experiments in verse and prose romance Jane Gilbert and Ad Putter; 4. Authors, narrators, and their stories in Old French romance Sylvie Lefèvre (translated by Roberta L. Krueger); 5. Arthurian transformations Elizabeth Archibald; 6. Romance and the medieval Mediterranean Sharon Kinoshita; 7. The crusading romance in Britain: religious violence and the transformation of popular chivalric narrative Lee Manion; 8. 'Making race' in medieval romance: a premodern critical race studies perspective Nahir I. Otaño Gracia; 9. The construction and interrogation of gender in Old French romance Kathy M. Krause; 10. Emotions as the language of romance Megan Moore; 11. Medieval Iberian romance David A. Wacks; 12. Medieval and early modern Italian romance Laura Chuhan Campbell; 13. German medieval romance Albrecht Classen; 14. The ends of romance in Chaucer and Malory Patricia Clare Ingham; 15. French romance in the late middle ages and the renaissance Jane H.M. Taylor; 16. Romance in historical context: literature and the changing values and norms of aristocratic society Craig Taylor; 17. Romance in twentieth and twenty-first century popular culture Susan Aronstein.