Together with the next, this chapter is dedicated to the social, political, and religious encodings of the narrative spaces of romance. It explores social appropriations of space in romance and how the fourteenth-century Breton lays fashioned chivalric space at a time of major social evolutions. Setting out to consider the pattern of the quest, which is often taken to define romance as a genre, it examines the decentring of chivalric space in the lays, and documents the oblique restrictions the poems set to the expansion of chivalric space. The poems thus reveal a growingly bourgeois approach to space. The construction of a sense of national or proto-national identity is examined in connection to such political and social evolutions.