’floire And Blancheflor’ And The European Romance

This comparative study examines a medieval love story, 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, while maintaining its entertaining qualities. It shows the importance of a little-known medieval Spanish version to the development of the story throughout Europe, and especially as a precursor to Boccaccio's // Filocolo, and it examines important issues in the development of prose fiction in medieval and Renaissance Europe. This study is unique for its breadth of coverage of one story and for its inclusion of Spain as a significant participant in the development of medieval narrative. CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE 32 Floire and Blancheflor and the European Romance CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE 32 General Editor: Professor Alastair Minnis, Professor of Medieval Literature, University of York Editorial Board Professor Patrick Boyde, FBA (Serena Professor of Italian, Cambridge) Professor John Burrow, FBA (Winterstoke Professor of English, Bristol) Professor Rita Copeland (Professor of English, University of Minnesota) Professor Alan Deyermond, FBA (Professor of Hispanic Studies, London) Professor Peter Dronke, FBA (Professor of Medieval Latin Literature, Cambridge) Dr Simon Gaunt (University of Cambridge) Professor Nigel Palmer (Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, Oxford) Professor Winthrop Wetherbee (Professor of English, Cornell) This series of critical books seeks to cover the whole area of literature written in the major medieval languages - the main European vernaculars, and medieval Latin and Greek - during the period c. 1100-1500. Its chief aim is to publish and stimulate fresh scholarship and criticism on medieval literature, special emphasis being placed on understanding major works of poetry, prose, and drama in relation to the contemporary culture and learning which fostered them. Recent titles in the series 21 Medieval Dutch Literature in its European Context, edited by Erik Kooper 22 Dante and the Mystical Tradition: Bernard of Clairvaux in the "Commedia," by Steven Botterill 23 Heresy and Literacy, 1000-1530, edited by Peter Biller and Anne Hudson 24 Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring the "Aeneid" from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer, by Christopher Baswell 25 Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry: Alan of Lille's "Anticlaudianus" and John Gower's "Confessio Amantis," by James Simpson 26 Public Reading and the Reading Public in Late Medieval England and France, by Joyce Coleman 27 Medieval Reading: Grammar, Rhetoric and the Classical text, by Suzanne Reynolds 28 Editing "Piers Plowman": The Evolution of the Text, by Charlotte Brewer 29 Vernacular Literary Theory in the Middle Ages: The German Tradition, 800-1300, in its European Context, by Walter Haug 30 Texts and the Self in the Twelfth Century, by Sarah Spence 31 Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker, by Edwin Craun 32 "Floire and Blancheflor" and the European Romance, by Patricia E. Grieve A complete list of titles in the series can be found at the back of the book Floire and Blancheflor and the European Romance PATRI