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RR 2001/87 The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance Edited by Roberta L. Krueger Cambridge University Press Cambridge 2000 xix + 290 pp. ISBN 0 521 55342 3; 0 521 55687 2
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Cambridge Companions to Literature series
Keywords Literature, Romances
"... the most influential and enduring secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages" (I omit the editor's unnecessary academically over-cautious "arguably"). Enduring indeed, for its descendants are as popular today in their different ways as was the whole literary genre from the twelfth century to the close of the Middle Ages, and beyond. With...