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Selected ME Romances: Classifications
1. Classification by "Matter"
The Matter of England The Matter of France
King Horn (ca. 1225, SWMid or SMid)
Havelok the Dane (ca. 1280-1300, NEMid)
Athelston (ca. 1355-80, EMid)
Gamelyn (ca. 1350-70, NEMid) The Sowdon of Babylon (ca. 1400, EMid)
The Matter of Britain Arthurian
Sir Degaré (before 1325, SWMid)
Sir Orfeo (beginning of 14th c., SE)
The Earl of Toulouse (ca. 1400, NEMid)
Emaré (ca. 1400, NE) Layamon's Brut (chronicle-romance; late 12th c., WMid)
Ywain and Gawain (ca. 1300-50, N)
Sir Perceval of Galles (ca. 1300-40, N)
Sir Launfal (later 14th c., SE)
The Avowynge of King Arthur (ca. 1425, N)
Composite The Matter of the Orient
Ipomadon (late 14th c., NMid)
Eger and Grim (ca. 1450, N)
The Squyr of Lowe Degre (ca. 1500, EMid) The Sev1-116. Pearsall is concerned with romances written between 1240 and 1400 in England (1240 is the date of the MS in which King Horn, etc., appear). (In another article, Pearsall has specifically treated fifteenth-century English romances.) "Any sophisticated historical morphology of romance involves a knowledge of date, dialect, manuscript provenance, metrical form, exact class of audience, type of source, type of story,
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