This comparative study examines Floire and Blancheflor and shows how medieval writers from Spain, France, Italy, England, and Scandinavia reworked this story from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries to develop and emphasize social, political, religious and artistic goals. It shows the influence of a little-known medieval Spanish version, especially as a precursor to Boccaccio's Il Filocolo, and examines important issues of the development of prose fiction in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
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"Patricia E. Grieve's ambitious comparative study presents nothing less than a poetics of medieval romance's transformation and diversification through an examination of the enduring love story of Floire and Blancheflor." Barbara F. Weissberger, Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies
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This comparative study examines Floire and Blancheflor and shows how medieval writers from Spa in, France, Italy, England, and Scandinavia reworked this story from the twelfth through the sixteenth centuries to develop and emphasise social, political, religious and artistic goals. It shows the influence of a little-known medieval Spanish version, especially as a precursor to Boccaccio's Il Filocolo, and to examine important issues of the development of prose fiction in medieval and Renaissance Europe.
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The story of the pagan and Christian childhood sweethearts fired the imagination of many authors, translators and redactors, as well as that of the audience, and the physical artifacts of that imagination are no less powerful: since the middle of the nineteenth century, literary historians have endeavored to unravel the tangled skein of manuscripts and printed editions of Floire and Blancheflor in order to ascertain origin and routes of transmission. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hagiographic potential, poisoned fowl, las bienandanzas, generic crossroads, ciclo carolingio, gran conquista, inner tale, ballad research, aus grans, aristocratic version, false tomb, imaginative center, positivist critics, crónica general, prose romance, conversion material, third strain, fonds français, love quest, false death, medieval narrative Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle English, Crónica de Flores, Old Norse, Old French, King Felix, Gómez Pérez, Saint James, Saint Augustine, Jesus Christ, Crdnica de Flores, Cronica de Flores, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Saturday, King Fines, King of Babilonia, Book Five, Gaston Paris, King of Babylon, Ship of the Church, Brother Robert, Menéndez Pidal, Middle Ages, Bibliothèque Nationale, Boccaccio's Il Filocolo, Book Two New!
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The story of the pagan and Christian childhood sweethearts fired the imagination of many authors, translators and redactors, as well as that of the audience, and the physical artifacts of that imagination are no less powerful: since the middle of the nineteenth century, literary historians have endeavored to unravel the tangled skein of manuscripts and printed editions of Floire and Blancheflor in order to ascertain origin and routes of transmission. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
hagiographic potential, poisoned fowl, las bienandanzas, generic crossroads, ciclo carolingio, gran conquista, inner tale, ballad research, aus grans, aristocratic version, false tomb, imaginative center, positivist critics, crónica general, prose romance, conversion material, third strain, fonds français, love quest, false death, medieval narrative Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle English, Crónica de Flores, Old Norse, Old French, King Felix, Gómez Pérez, Saint James, Saint Augustine, Jesus Christ, Crdnica de Flores, Cronica de Flores, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Saturday, King Fines, King of Babilonia, Book Five, Gaston Paris, King of Babylon, Ship of the Church, Brother Robert, Menéndez Pidal, Middle Ages, Bibliothèque Nationale, Boccaccio's Il Filocolo, Book Two New!
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- Jean Misrahi Memorial Volume: Studies in Medieval Literature by Runte in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Canterbury Tales (Barron's Book Notes) by Chaucer on page 86, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer on page 86, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Medieval Literature by Palmer in Front Matter, and Index
- University of Minnesota by Amy Palmer in Front Matter, and Index
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- The Evolution of Arthurian Romance: The Verse Tradition from Chrétien to Froissart (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Literacy in Medieval Celtic Societies (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Huw Pryce in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Chaucer's Legendary Good Women (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Florence Percival in Back Matter
- Fictions of Identity in Medieval France (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Donald Maddox in Back Matter
- Arthurian Narrative in the Latin Tradition (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) by Siân Echard in Back Matter
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