As the first study of the manuscripts and readership of the earliest surviving romance of Alexander the Great in England, this book discusses each codex and its unique text informed by current attitudes towards Alexander and examines his reception as a model of imperial authority or failure.

Charles Russell Stone is an assistant Vice Provost at the University of Nevada.

"Stone’s monograph is grounded in historicism and lively in its address to English social constituencies (baronial, regnal, clerical, courtly-dynastic). It opens the door to further investigation of an understudied but central work, and will be of interest to scholars of romance, text-networks, insular literary history, and codicology."

Laura Ashe, Faculty of English, University of Oxford:

"In its thorough account of medieval England’s reception of the Alexander legend, Stone’s The Roman de toute chevalerie traces the tale across a great variety of adaptations, commentaries, interpolations, and translations from the twelfth century onward, in Latin, French, and English."