'Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521027670
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Medieval; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Europe; European - General; Floire et Blancheflor (Romance); Floire et Blancheflor (Romance) Floire et Bla; Literary Criticism & Collections / European; Literary Criticism-Medieval
First sentence: 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.
Notes: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature