 Romances reworked legends, fairy tales, and history to suit the readers' and hearers' tastes, but by "c".1600 they were out of fashion, and Miguel de Cervantes famously satirised them in his novel "Don Quixote".Still, the modern image of "medieval" is more influenced by the romance than by any other medieval genre, and the word "medieval" invokes knights, distressed damsels, dragons, and other romantic tropes.Originally, romance literature was written in Old French, Anglo-Norman and Occitan, later, in English and German.