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Romances, Spanish.

Here are entered collections of Spanish medieval metrical romances and their prose versions. Collections of Spanish ballads, including those called in Spanish \"romances\", are entered under Ballads, Spanish.

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• Spanish literature -- To 1500
• Romances

• Romances, Spanish -- History and criticism

• Spanish romances

• Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain: From Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), by Stacey Elizabeth Triplette (HTML and PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

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• Chivalry, Reading, and Women's Culture in Early Modern Spain: From Amadís de Gaula to Don Quixote (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, c2018), by Stacey Elizabeth Triplette (HTML and PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Aucassin and Nicolette and Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends, trans. by Eugene Mason (HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Early Prose Romances: Reynard the Fox; Friar Bacon; Robert the Devil; Guy of Warwick; Virgilius; History of Hamlet; Friar Rush (London et al.: G. Routledge and sons, 1889), ed. by Henry Morley
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Popular Romances of the Middle Ages (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871), by George W. Cox and Eustace Hinton Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tales of Romance (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1919), ed. by Andrew Lang, illust. by H. J. Ford and Lancelot Speed (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Book of Romance (London et al.: Longmans, Green and Co., 1902), by Mrs. Lang, ed. by Andrew Lang, contrib. by H. S. C. Everard, illust. by H. J. Ford (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)

• Multilingualism and Mother Tongue in Medieval French, Occitan, and Catalan Narratives (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010), by Catherine Léglu (PDF at PSU)
• Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Laine E. Doggett (PDF at PSU)
• Weaving Narrative: Clothing in Twelfth-Century French Romance (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009), by Monica L. Wright (PDF at PSU)
• The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature v2; London and Edinburgh: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1897), by George Saintsbury (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Epic and Romance: Essays on Medieval Literature (London: Macmillan, 1931), by W. P. Ker (Gutenberg text)
• From Ritual to Romance, by Jessie L. Weston
  • HTML at sacred-texts.com
  • Gutenberg text

• Manekine; John and Blonde; and "Foolish Generosity" (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010), by Philippe de Remi Beaumanoir, trans. by Barbara Nelson Sargent-Baur (PDF at PSU; pages may be unusually ordered)
• The Chatelaine of Vergi: A 13th Century French Romance (in English and French; London: Chatto and Windus, 1909), trans. by Alice Kemp-Welch, contrib. by Louis Brandin and Gaston Raynaud (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The History of Fulk Fitz-Warine (London: A. Moring, 1904), trans. by Alice Kemp-Welch, contrib. by Louis Brandin (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Lyfe of Ipomydon, by Hue de Rotelande, ed. by Tadahiro Ikegami (HTML at Michigan)
• Arthurian Chronicles, Represented by Wace and Layamon, by Wace and Layamon, ed. by Lucy Allen Paton, trans. by Eugene Mason
  • Part 1 (Introduction, and Roman de Brut): Gutenberg text
  • Part 2 (Layamon's Brut): Gutenberg text
• Merlin: or The Early History of King Arthur: A Prose Romance (1906 edition), ed. by Henry B. Wheatley (HTML at Michigan)
• Roman de Brut, by Wace, trans. by Eugene Mason, contrib. by Lucy Allen Paton (Gutenberg text)
• The Romance of the Rose (3 volumes; London: J. M. Dent and co., 1900), by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun, trans. by Frederick Startridge Ellis
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 3: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The History of Jason (EETS extra series #111; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., and H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1913), by Raoul Lefèvre, ed. by John James Munro, trans. by William Caxton
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye, Written in French by Raoul Lefèvre, Translated and Printed by William Caxton (About A.D. 1474): The First English Printed Book, Now Faithfully Reproduced with a Critical Introduction, Index and Glassary and Eight Pages in Photographic Facsimile (2 volumes; London: D. Nutt, 1894), by Raoul Lefèvre, ed. by H. Oskar Sommer, trans. by William Caxton
  • Volume 1: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume 2: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes; page images at HathiTrust
• The Adventures of Hatim Taï: A Romance (London: Printed for the Oriental translation fund, 1830), trans. by Duncan Forbes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Recuyles or Gaderige to Gyder of ye Hystoryes of Troye (London: Enprynted by W. de Worde, 1503), by Raoul Lefèvre, trans. by William Caxton (page images at loc.gov)

• Arthour and Merlin (transcription and translation of the Oxford Bodelein Douce 236 MS, and link to transcription of Auchinleck MS), ed. by Eleanor Lawson (HTML with commentary at archive.org)
• Arthurian Chronicles, Represented by Wace and Layamon, by Wace and Layamon, ed. by Lucy Allen Paton, trans. by Eugene Mason
  • Part 1 (Introduction, and Roman de Brut): Gutenberg text
  • Part 2 (Layamon's Brut): Gutenberg text
• Cliges, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by William Wistar Comfort (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Cliges: A Romance, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by Laetitia Jane Gardiner (Gutenberg text)
• Eric et Enide, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by William Wistar Comfort (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende: A Tale of the Times of King Arthur (London: Addey and Co., 1856), by Mary-Lafon, trans. by Alfred Elwes, illust. by Gustave Doré (page images at HathiTrust)
• Le Morte D'Arthur (middle English edition), by Thomas Malory (HTML at Michigan)
• Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of His Noble Knights of the Round Table (modern English edition in 2 volumes; London and New York: Macmillan, 1903), by Thomas Malory, ed. by Alfred W. Pollard, contrib. by William Caxton
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
• Morien, ed. by Jessie L. Weston (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Roman de Brut, by Wace, trans. by Eugene Mason, contrib. by Lucy Allen Paton (Gutenberg text)
• The Romance of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table (abridged by Pollard from Malory; New York: Macmillan, 1920), by Thomas Malory, ed. by Alfred W. Pollard, illust. by Arthur Rackham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sir Cleges; Sir Libeaus Desconus: Two Old English Metrical Romances Rendered Into Prose (London: D. Nutt, 1902), trans. by Jessie L. Weston, illust. by Caroline Watts
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Stories of King Arthur (London et al.: Cassell and Co., 1910), by A. L. Haydon, illust. by Arthur Rackham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Alliterative Morte Arthure, ed. by Valerie Krishna (HTML at Virginia)
• Arthur: A Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century, Copied and Edited From the Marquis of Bath's MS. (London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by Trübner and Co., 1864), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall (Gutenberg text)
• The Awntyrs off Arthur, ed. by Thomas Hahn (HTML with notes at metseditions.org)
• King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure, ed. by Larry D. Benson and Edward E. Fisher (HTML at metseditions.org)
• La Storia di Merlino (in Italian; Bergamo: Istituto Italiano d'Arti Grafiche, 1898), by Paolino Pieri, ed. by Ireneo Sanesi
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Lancelot of the Laik, ed. by Alan Lupack (HTML with commentary at metseditions.org)
• Popular Romances of the Middle Ages (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1871), by George W. Cox and Eustace Hinton Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose Merlin, ed. by John Conlee (HTML at metseditions.org)
• The Quest of Merlin, by Richard Hovey (HTML at Rochester)
• Sir Gawain at the Grail Castle, trans. by Jessie L. Weston, illust. by Caroline Watts (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
• The Song of Arthur, by S. Fowler Wright (HTML at sfw.org.uk)
• The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle, ed. by Thomas Hahn (HTML with commentary at metseditions.org)
• Yvain, or, The Knight with the Lion, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by William Wistar Comfort
  • HTML at mcllibrary.org
  • PDF at In Parentheses
• The High History of the Holy Graal, trans. by Sebastian Evans (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Lancelot, or, The Knight of the Cart, by Chrétien de Troyes, trans. by William Wistar Comfort (HTML at mcllibrary.org)
• Merlin: or The Early History of King Arthur: A Prose Romance (1906 edition), ed. by Henry B. Wheatley (HTML at Michigan)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. by J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon (HTML at Michigan)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (with modern prose translation), ed. by Karen Arthur and Ian Lancashire (HTML at Toronto)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. by William Allan Neilson (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, trans. by Jessie L. Weston (PDF at In Parentheses)
• Pearl, Cleanness, Patience and Sir Gawain, Reproduced in Facsimile From the Unique Ms. Cotton Nero A.x in the British Museum (EETS original series #162; London: Printed for the Early English Text Society by H. Milford, Oxford University Pres, 1923), ed. by Israel Gollancz (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, ed. by Thomas Hahn (HTML at metseditions.org)

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