Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance: Studies in Medieval Romance

List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction: Insular Romance in Translation: New Approaches Victoria Flood and Megan G. Leitch 1. Romantic Wales: Imagining Wales in Medieval Insular Romance Helen Fulton 2. 'Something remains which is not open to my understanding': Enigmatic Marvels in Welsh Otherworld Narratives and Latin Arthurian Romance Jessica J. Lockhart 3. The Supernatural Company in Cultural Translation: Dafydd ap Gwilym and the Roman De La Rose Tradition Victoria Flood 4. Women and Werewolves: William of Palerne in Three Cultures Helen Cooper 5. 'Better a valiant squire than a cowardly knight': Gender in Guruns strengleikr (The Lay of Gurun) Carl Phelpstead 6. 'Vinegar upon Nitre'? Walter Map's Romance of 'Sadius and Galo' Neil Cartlidge 7. The Three Barriers to Closure in Hue de Rotelande's Ipomedon and the Middle English Translations Rebecca Newby 8. Trojan Trash? The Seege or Batayle of Troye and the Learning of 'Popular' Romance Venetia Bridges 9. Poaching Romance: Fan Fiction Theory and Shared Medieval Narratives Cory James Rushton 10. Between Epic and Romance: The Matter of England and the Chansons de Geste Aisling Byrne 11. Geographies of Loss: Cilician Armenia and the Prose Romance of Melusine Jan Shaw 12. 'All this will not comfort me': Romancing the Ballad in The Squire of Low Degree Laura Ashe 13. Merchants in Shining Armour: Chivalrous Interventions and Social Mobility in Late Middle English Romance Megan G. Leitch Index