Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (Paperback)

Introduction: In the Beginning Was Romance
History as Romance: The Genesis of a Medieval Genre
1. Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance: Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain
Popular Romance: A National Fiction
2. The Romance of England: Richard Coer de Lyon and the Politics of Race, Religion, Sexuality, and Nation
Chivalric/Heroic Romance: Defending Elite Men and Bodies
3. Warring Against Modernity: Masculinity and Chivalry in Crisis; or, The Alliterative Morte Arthure's Romance Anatomy of the Crusades
Family 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 Others
Travel Romance/Ethnographic Romance: Mapping the World and Home
5. Eye on the World: Mandeville's Pleasure Zones; or, Cartography, Anthropology, and Medieval Travel Romance