A reading of how women's power is asserted and demonstrated in the popular medieval genre of romance.

Introduction
Prophecy as Social Influence: Cassandra, Anne Neville, and the Corpus Christi Manuscript of Troilus and Criseyde
The Science of Female Power in John Metham's Amoryus and Cleopes
A Woman's 'Crafte': Sexual and Chivalric Patronage in Partonope of Blois
Creative Revisions: Competing Figures of the Patroness in Thomas Chestre's Sir Launfal
Conclusion
Bibliography