TY - BOOK AU - Aertsen H AU - MacDonald A A TI - Companion to Middle English romance SN - 9053832491 (pbk) AV - PR1109 PY - 1993/// CY - Amsterdam PB - VU University Press KW - English literature KW - Middle English 11001500 KW - History and criticism KW - Romances English N1 - 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 ER -