Romance and History

Preface; Part I. Opening Perspectives: 1. Romance and history: designing the times Jon Whitman; Part II. The Matter of Rome (and Realms to the East): Approaches to Antiquity: 2. Fearful histories: the past contained in the romances of antiquity Christopher Baswell; 3. Troy and Rome, two narrative presentations of history in the thirteenth century: the Roman de Troie en prose and the Faits des Romains Catherine Croizy-Naquet; Part III. The Matter of Britain: Social and Spiritual Drives: 4. Inescapable history: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries Robert W. Hanning; 5. Gottfried, Wolfram, and the Angevins: history, genealogy, and fiction in the Tristan and Parzival romances Adrian Stevens; 6. Fictional history as ideology: functions of the grail legend from Robert de Boron to the Roman de Perceforest Friedrich Wolfzettel; 7. The prose Brut, Hardyng's Chronicle, and the alliterative Morte Arthure: the end of the story Edward Donald Kennedy; 8. Arthur in transition: Malory's Morte Darthur Helen Cooper; Part IV. The Matters of France and Italy: Acts of Recollection and Invention: 9. The Chanson de geste as a construction of memory Jean-Pierre Martin; 10. Ruggiero's story: the making of a dynastic hero Riccardo Bruscagli; 11. Temporality and narrative structure in European romance from the late fifteenth century to the early sixteenth century Marco Praloran; Part V. Matters of Fabulation and Fact: Shifting Registers: 12. The disparagement of chivalric romance for its lack of historicity in sixteenth-century Italian poetics Daniel Javitch; 13. Romance and history in Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata David Quint; 14. The thinking of history in Spenserian romance Gordon Teskey; 15. La Cava: romance and history in Corral and Cervantes Marina S. Brownlee; Part VI. Closing Reference Points: 16. Afterword and afterward: romance, history, time Jon Whitman; Select bibliography.