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As a literary genre, romance or chivalric romance refers to a style of heroic prose and verse narrative current in Europe from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance.
The term was coined to distinguish popular material in the vernacular (at first the Romance languages French, Portuguese and Spanish, later German, English, Italian and others) from scholarly and ecclesiastical literature in Latin.
The boundaries between the romance and the chansons de geste of the troubadour were somewhat fluid. In...
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