Alongside the picaresque novel, the heroic romance, also called the courtly-historical novel, the courtly Baroque novel, or the heroic-galant novel, is historically the most important form of the European novel of the Baroque period, with centers in France and Germany. These were often very lengthy works, which were assigned to the high style within the early modern three-style system (Poetics). For subject matter, the heroic romances usually draw on historical sources, not rarely from an…