Companion to Middle English romance / edited by Henk Aertsen and Alasdair A. MacDonald. - Amsterdam : VU University Press, 1993. - 208 p. ; 23 cm.

First published 1990.

Includes bibliographical references.

The French background / Martin Gosman -- An exemplary hero : Alexander the Great / Gerrit Bunt -- Narrative mode and interpretation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Frans Diekstra -- Game and earnest in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight / Henk Aertsen -- Psychology and the Middle English romances : preliminaries in readings of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Sir Orfeo, and Sir Launfal / Bart Veldhoen -- Romance and parody / Wim Tigges -- Women and romance / Elizabeth Archibald -- Love and marriage in the Middle English romances / Erik Kooper -- The real and the ideal : attitudes to love and chivalry as seen in The avowing of King Arthur / David Johnson.

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