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• English romances

• Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), by Alex Mueller (PDF at Ohio State)
• Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace, ed. by Edward E. Foster (HTML at Rochester)
• Early English Prose Romances, With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions (second edition, 3 volumes; London: Nattali and Bond, 1858), ed. by William John Thoms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early English Romances, Done into Modern English by Edith Rickert: Romances of Friendship, by Edith Rickert (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
• Early English Romances, Done into Modern English by Edith Rickert: Romances of Love, by Edith Rickert (illustrated HTML at elfinspell.com)
• Four Middle English Romances: Sir Isumbras, Octavian, Sir Eglamour or Artois, Sir Tryamour, ed. by Harriet Hudson (HTML at Rochester)
• Four Romances of England: King Horn, Havelok the Dane, Bevis of Hampton, Athelston, ed. by Ronald B. Herzman, Graham Drake, and Eve Salisbury (HTML at Rochester)
• The Tale of Beryn; With a Prologue of the Merry Adventure of the Pardoner With a Tapster at Canterbury (EETS extra series #105; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., and by H. Frowde, 1909), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall and W. G. Boswell-Stone, contrib. by W. A. Clouston
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The English Charlemagne Romances (EETS extra series #34-41, 43-45, and 50; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879-1887), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, Emil Hausknecht, Sidney Lee, and Octavia Richardson
  • part 1-5 and 7-12: page images at HathiTrust
  • part 6: multiple formats at Google
• Hero-Myths and Legends of the British Race, by M. I. Ebbutt (illustrated HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
• Torrent of Portyngale (EETS extra series #51; London et al.: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trubner, and Co., 1887), ed. by E. Adam (Gutenberg text)
• Amoryus and Cleopes, by John Metham, ed. by Stephen F. Page (HTML at Rochester)
• 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 Rochester)
• King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure, ed. by Larry Dean Benson and Edward E. Fisher (HTML at Rochester)
• King Horn; Floriz and Blauncheflur; The Assumption of Our Lady (EETS original series #14; Oxford, UK: Early English Text Society, 1901), ed. by J. Rawson Lumby and George Harley McKnight
  • HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com
  • Gutenberg text
• The Laud Troy Book, A Romance of About 1400 A.D. (EETS #121 and #122, 2 volumes; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., 1902-1903), ed. by J. Ernst Wülfing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Prose Merlin, ed. by John Conlee (HTML at Rochester)
• The Siege of Thebes, by John Lydgate, ed. by Robert Edwards (HTML at Rochester)
• 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
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• Three Middle English Charlemagne Romances, ed. by Alan Lupack (HTML at Rochester)
• 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)
• The Middle English Breton Lays, ed. by Anne Laskaya and Eve Salisbury (HTML at Rochester)
• Sir Gawain: Eleven Romances and Tales, ed. by Thomas Hahn (HTML at Rochester)
• Specimens of early English metrical romances, chiefly written during the early part of the fourteenth century; to which is prefixed an historical introduction, intended to illustrate the rise and progress of romantic composition in France and England. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1811), by George Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Thornton romances. The early English metrical romances of Perceval, Isumbras, Eglamour, and Degrevant. Selected from manuscripts at Lincoln and Cambridge. (Printed for the Camden society, by J. B. Nichols and son, 1844), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Percy folio of old English ballads and romances. (De La More Press, 1905), by C. K. Ogden, Frederick James Furnivall, John W. Hales, and Thomas Percy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early English prose romances (G. Routledge and Sons, limited;, 1906), by William John Thoms and Henry Morley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Middle English metrical romances (Prentice-Hall, inc., 1930), by Walter H. French and Charles Brockway Hale (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early English romances in verse: (Chatto and Windus;, 1908), by Edith Rickert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient English metrical romances. (E. & G. Goldsmid, 1884), by Joseph Ritson and Edmund Goldsmid (page images at HathiTrust)
• A catalogue of books in first editions selected to illustrate the history of English prose fiction from 1485 to 1870. (The De Vinne press, 1917), by Grolier Club (page images at HathiTrust)
• Selected pieces of early popular poetry: re-published principally from early printed copies, in the black letter. (Printed by T. Davison, for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1817), by Edward Vernon Utterson, Edward More, Edward Gosynhyll, and Robert Copland (page images at HathiTrust)
• The vogue of medieval chivalric romance during the English renaissance. (George Banta publishing company, 1919), by Ronald S. Crane (page images at HathiTrust)
• Character in the "Matter of England" romances., part of a thesis entitled "A study of the narrative art of four metrical romances" ([Urbana, Ill.], 1911), by Herbert LeSourd Creek (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Specimens of Early English metrical romances; to which is prefixed an historical introduction on the rise and progress of romantic composition in France and England. (AMS Press, 1968), by George Ellis and J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Metrical romances of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries: (A. Constable and co.; [etc., etc.], 1810), by Henry William Weber (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early popular poetry of Scotland and the northern border (London, Reeves and Turner, 1895), by David Laing and William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of early English metrical romances, to which is prefixed an historical introduction on the rise and progress of romantic composition in France and England. (Henry G. Bohn, 1848), by George Ellis and J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero-myths & legends of the British race (G. G. Harrap & company, 1910), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early English romances in verse, done into modern English : romances of love. (Chatto and Windus;, 1908), by Edith Rickert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Romance and prophecies of Thomas of Erceldoune (Llanerch Publishers, 1991), by of Erceldoune Thomas and James A. H. Murray (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The romance of Guy of Warwick. The second or 15th-century version. (Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co., 1875), by Julius Zupitza (page images at HathiTrust)
• Metrik und sprache der mittelenglischen romanze The Sege off Melayne. (Göttingen, 1890), by Bernhard Dannenberg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early English romances in verse (Chatto and Windus ;, 1908), by Edith Rickert (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early English prose romances (G. Routledge, 1889), by William John Thoms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Medieval English romances (Dept. of English, University of Sydney, 1989), by Diane Speed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero-myths & legends of the British race (Frederick A. Stokes Co., 1910), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• A collection of early prose romances. (W. Pickering, 1828), by William John Thoms (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early English miscellanies, in prose and verse (Printed for the Warton club, 1855), by J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Octavian; zwei mittelenglische Bearbeitungen der Sage. (Gebr. Henninger, 1885), by Gregor Ignatz Sarrazin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero-myths & legends of the British race (Dingwall-Rock, 1910), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Early English prose romances (G. Routledge and sons, ltd., 1924), by William John Thoms, Virgil, Roger Bacon, and Henry Morley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• A wonder book of old romance (Wells, Gardner, Darton & Co., 1907), by F. J. Harvey Darton and A. G. Walker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of early English metrical romances, chiefly written during the early part of the fourteenth century : to which is prefixed an historical introduction, intended to illustrate the rise and progress of romantic composition in France and England (Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805), by George Ellis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ancient Engleish metrical romanceës (Printed by W. Bulmer and Company, for G. and W. Nicol, 1802), by Joseph Ritson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A dissertation on romance and minstrelsy. (E. & G. Goldsmid, 1891), by Joseph Ritson and Chrétien de Troyes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Arthurian tales : the greatest of romances which recount the noble and valorous deeds of King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table (Norrœna Society, 1907), by Thomas Malory (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gaston de Latour : an unfinished romance (Macmillan, 1901), by Walter Pater and Charles Lancelot Shadwell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The famous and pleasant history of Parismus, the valiant and renowned Prince of Bohemia : in three parts. (Printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, 1835), by Emanuel Ford (page images at HathiTrust)
• The beauties of ancient English poetry. (Printed for T. Tegg, 1823), by Thomas Tegg (page images at HathiTrust)
• Syr Gawayne; a collection of ancient romance-poems, by Scotish and English authors, relating to that celebrated knight of the Round Table. (AMS Press, 1971), by Frederic Madden (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sire Degarre, a Middle English metrical romance ([Chicago], 1916), by Muriel Bothwell Carr (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sir Beves of Hamtoun; a metrical romance (AMS Press, 1973), by William B. Turnbull (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Early popular poetry of Scotland and the northern border (Reeves and Turner, 1895), by David Laing and William Carew Hazlitt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero myths & legends of the British race (George Harrap & company, 1912), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Woman in epic and romance (1915), by Alta Green (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Romances of chivalry (T. Fisher Unwin, 1887), by John Ashton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero-myths & legends of the British race (G. G. Harrap & company, 1920), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Hero-myths & legends of the British race (George G. Harrap & co., 1918), by M. I. Ebbutt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Medieval English romances (Dept. of English, University of Sydney, 1987), by Diane Speed (page images at HathiTrust)
• Specimens of early English metrical romances, to which is prefixed an historical introduction, on the rise and progress of romantic composition in France and England. (H. G. Bohn, 1848), by George Ellis and J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Romances of chivalry : told and illustrated in fac-simile (G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1887), by John Ashton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race, by M. I. Ebbutt (Gutenberg ebook)

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