Empire of magic: medieval romance and the politics of cultural fantasy

Introduction: In the Beginning Was RomanceHistory as Romance: The Genesis of a Medieval Genre1. Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of BritainPopular Romance: A National Fiction2. The Romance of England: Richard Coer de Lyon and the Politics of Race, Religion, Sexuality, and NationChivalric/Heroic Romance: Defending Elite Men and Bodies3. Warring Against Modernity: Masculinity and Chivalry in Crisis or, The Alliterative Morte Arthure's Romance Anatomy of the CrusadesFamily Romance/Hagiographic Romance: A Matter of Women (and Children)4. Beauty and the East, a Modern Love Story: Women, Children, and Imagined Communities in The Man of Law's Tale and Its OthersTravel Romance/Ethnographic Romance: Mapping the World and Home5. Eye on the World: Mandeville's Pleasure Zones or, Cartography, Anthropology, and Medieval Travel Romance