Middle English Romance: Family, Marriage, Intimacy

Author / Editor
Riddy, Felicity.

Title
Middle English Romance: Family, Marriage, Intimacy

Published
Roberta L. Krueger, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 235-52.

Description
Sets Middle English romances "in the context of late medieval patterns of family and marriage, and presents them as part of a literate but unlearned lay culture centered on the home." Briefly discusses Thop and TC.

Alternative Title
Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance.

Chaucer Subjects
Background and General Criticism.
Troilus and Criseyde.
Tale of Sir Thopas.