Some elements of Romance (particularly the medieval sort)

• Knights & ladies (a largely aristocratic cast)

• “Courtly love”

• Adventure & knightly combat

• Setting removed from the everyday (holiday; chanson d’aventure)

• Marvels, wonders, magic, supernatural elements

• Interlace structure (sometimes)

• Narrative strategies of deferral (through dilation, repetition, multiplication of adventures)

• Bookishness