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===Romance, 1000-1500===

===Romance, 1000-1500===

The word ''romance'' seems to have become the label of romantic fictions because of the "Romance" language in which early (11th and twelfth century) works of this genre were composed. The most fashionable genres developed in southern [[France]] in the late twelfth century and spread east- and northwards with translations and individual national performances. Subject matter such as [[King Arthur|Arthurian]] knighthood had already at that time traveled in the opposite direction, reaching southern France from Britain and French Brittany. As a consequence, it is particularly difficult to determine how much the early "romance" owed to [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] models and how much to northern folkloric verse epics such as [[Beowulf]] and the [[Nibelungenlied]].

The word ''romance'' seems to have become the label of romantic fictions because of the "Romance" language in which early (11th and twelfth century) works of this genre were composed. The most fashionable genres developed in southern [[France]] in the late twelfth century and spread east- and northwards with translations and individual national performances. Subject matter such as [[King Arthur|Arthurian]] knighthood had already at that time traveled in the opposite direction, reaching southern France from Britain and French Brittany. As a consequence, it is particularly difficult to determine how much the early "romance" owed to [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] models and how much to northern folkloric verse epics such as [[Beowulf]] and the [[Nibelungenlied]].