The collection of essays in Romance Epic expertly examines the Romance
epic as a genre, delving into its ever-changing period, audience, and
region. The essays span across a wide range of different topics: the
specificity of the Romance epic and how well it fits into the genre of
epic at all, the structure of the chansons de geste, school influences
on the Old French, the reconstruction of lost chansons de geste, the
evolution of the genre through centuries, and topics specific to certain
works, such as problems in the Chanson de Roland and the El Cantar de
Mio Cid.