Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England

What did medieval readers think of romance? Their attitudes to it, and the implications for the genre, are explored in this provocative study.

An important and powerful meditation on romance genre, reception and ethical/moral purpose — amongst many other aspects of romance. Professor ROBERT ROUSE, University of British Columbia.

Medieval readers, like modern ones, differed in whether they saw "noble storie, and worthie for to drawen to memorie" in romance, or "drasty rymyng, nat worth a toor...