The Beginnings of Medieval Romance: Fact and

Up to the twelfth century, writing in the western vernaculars dealt almost exclusively with religious, historical and factual themes, all of which were understood to convey the truth. The second half of the twelfth century saw the emergence of a new genre--the romance--which was consciously conceived as fictional and therefore allowed to break free from traditional presuppositions. Green examines this period of crucial importance for the romance genre and for the genesis of medieval fiction.

Preface
List of abbreviations
Defining twelfth-century fictionality
Vernacular fiction in the twelfth century: predecessors, finding a place for fiction
Fictive orality: Excursus: Orality and performance in early French romance
Fiction and Wolfram's Parzival: intertextuality, sources, history
Fiction and structure: Ordo narrationis, typology, folktale pattern, double cycle
Fiction and history: types of narrative, MatiTre de Rome, MatiTre de Bretagne, genesis of medieval fictionality
Notes
Bibliography
Index of names
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The Beginnings of Medieval Romance: Fact and Fiction, 1150â€“1220

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