Romance (genre)

type of prose and verse narrative

epic Italian poem by Ludovico Ariosto

late 14th-century Middle English chivalric romance

epic poem by the Italian poet Torquato Tasso first published in 1581; tells a mythified account of the First Crusade in which Christian knights led by Godfrey of Bouillon battle to take Jerusalem

Parzival () is a medieval chivalric romance by the poet and knight Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German. The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, centers on the Arthurian hero Parzival (Percival in English) and his long quest for the Holy Grail following his initial failure to achieve it.

1485 reworking of existing tales about King Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory

1490 novel by Joanot Martorell and Martí Joan de Galba

body of Medieval literature associated with Great Britain and Brittany, and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur

12th-century French poet

thumb|The Knight Errant (painting)|The Knight Errant by [[John Everett Millais (1870)]]

body of literature and legendary material associated with the history of France, in particular involving Charlemagne and his associates

poem by Geoffrey Chaucer

literary cycle made up of Greek and Roman mythology

epic poem by Matteo Maria Boiardo

literary work

Arthurian romance by Hartmann von Aue

Ruodlieb is a fragmentary romance in Latin verse written by an unknown southern German poet who flourished about 1030. He was almost certainly a monk of the Bavarian Tegernsee Abbey.

novel by Ferrand Martínez

Middle English narrative lay

book by William Shakespeare

Middle English romance

novel by Andrea da Barberino

Lanzelet is a medieval romance written by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven after 1194.

legendary hero

12th-century Anglo-Norman romance

book

medieval Catalan chivalric romance

Moriaen (also spelled Moriaan, Morion, Morien) is a 14th-century Arthurian romance in Middle Dutch. A 4,720-line version is preserved in the vast Lancelot Compilation, and a short fragment exists at the Royal Library at Brussels. The work tells the story of Morien, the Moorish son of Aglovale, one of King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table.

thumb|Titlepage of the 1553 edition thumb|Woodcut illustration by [[Leonhard Beck]] Theuerdank (Teuerdank, Tewerdanck, Teuerdannckh) is a poetic work the composition of which is attributed to the Holy Roman Emperor, Maximilian I (1486-1519). Written in German, it tells the fictionalised and romanticised story of Maximilian's journey to marry Mary of Burgundy in 1477. The published poem was accompanied by 118 woodcuts designed by the artists Leonhard Beck, Hans Burgkmair, Hans Schäufelein and others. Its newly designed blackletter typeface was influential.

thumb|The White King Learning to Conduct a Kitchen, woodcut by Hans Burgkmair

The ''''' (; German transliteration: ), also known as Buovo d'Antona''''' (), is a Yiddish chivalric romance written by Elia Levita between 1506 and 1508. Sol Liptzin described it as "the most outstanding poetic work in Old Yiddish".