Table of Contents

Introduction: reassessing late medieval romance
1: 'Récits d'armes et/ou d'amour': love, prowess and chivalric masculinity
2: Youthful folly in boys and girls: idyllic romance and the perils of adolescence in Pierre de Provence and Paris et Vienne
3: Husbands and wives in marital romance: the trials of male adultery, bigamy, and repudiation
4: Incestuous desire versus marital love: rewriting the tale of the 'maiden without hands' in versions of the Manekine and the Roman du Comte d'Anjou
Conclusion: romance in a moralising culture
Bibliography

About the Author

Rosalind Brown-Grant was educated at the University of Manchester where she took a BA in French and Italian (1986) and was also later awarded a Ph.D for her thesis on the fifteenth-century writer Christine de Pizan (1994). Currently Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Leeds, she specialises in the teaching of medieval French literature at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Her published work includes Christine de Pizan and the Moral Defence
of Women: Reading beyond Gender (CUP, 1999), a translation of Christine de Pizan's Book of the City of Ladies (Penguin Classics, 1999), and numerous articles in scholarly journals and edited volumes on
Christine de Pizan and, more recently, late medieval French romance. She is currently preparing a major new research project on narration in Burgundian historiography.

Reviews

This book's close engagement with romance, gender, and broader social discourses should make it a valuable contribution to both medieval gender studies and current research into the culture of the later Middle Ages.
*Laura J. Campbell, French Studies*

A superb handbook of late-medieval prose French romance.
*Speculum*