Browse Romances
Alexander and Dindimus (Alexander Fragment B)
c. 1350
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse
Alexander Fragment A
c. 1340
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse
Alexander-Cassamus
Fifteenth century
Form: Eight-line stanzas
Alliterative Morte Arthure
c. 1400
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse
Arthour and Merline
1250-1300
Form: Rhyming couplets
Arthur
Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets
Awntyrs off Arthure
Late fourteenth century
Form: Alliterative stanzas (bob and wheel)
Capystranus
1456-1515
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas
Floris and Blancheflour
c. 1250
Form: Rhyming couplets
Gest Historiale of the Destruction of Troy
Second half of the fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse
Greene Knight
c.1500
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas, Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas
Guy and Colbrond
Fifteenth century?
Form: Six-line tail-rhyme stanzas
Guy of Warwick
c.1300
Form: Rhyming couplets, Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas
History of the Holy Grail
1420s
Form: Rhyming couplets
Horn Childe & Maiden Rimnild
c. 1320
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas
King Horn
Last part of the thirteenth century
Form: Rhyming couplets
King of Tars
Early fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas
Le Bone Florence of Rome
Late fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas
Otuel a Knight
before 1330
Form: Rhyming couplets
Richard Coeur de Lion
c. 1300
Form: Rhyming couplets
Seege or Batayle of Troye
1300-25
Form: Rhyming couplets
Siege of Jerusalem
Late fourteenth century
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse
Sir Cleges
Late fourteenth century
Form: Twelve-line tail-rhyme stanzas
Sultan of Babylon
Late fourteenth or early fifteenth century
Form: Four-line stanzas (quatrains), Eight-line stanzas
Titus and Vespasian
1375-1400
Form: Rhyming couplets
Wars of Alexander (Alexander Fragment C)
c. 1450
Form: Unrhymed alliterative verse