What are the general characteristics of a mideveal romance?
In late medieval and Renaissance high culture, the important European literary trend was to fantastic fictions in the mode of Romance. The genre was popularly well-received, a style of heroic prose and verse narrative that was particularly current in aristocratic literature of Medieval and Early Modern Europe, that narrated fantastic stories about the marvelous adventures of a chivalrous, heroic knight, often of super-human ability, who goes on a quest. Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but with ironic, satiric or burlesque intent. Romances often reworked legends and fairy tales and traditional tales about Charlemagne and Roland or King Arthur.
