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Article: `Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance. (Reviews).
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 2001
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Patricia E. Grieve, `Floire and Blancheflor' and the European Romance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997), xiii + 240 pp. ISBN 0-521-43162-X. 40.00 [pounds sterling].
The focal text in Patricia Grieve's study of the story of Floire and Blanchefior is a hitherto little known thirteenth-century Spanish version, Cronica de Flores y Blancaflor (Grieve's title), which is interpolated, in multiple parts, into a late fourteenth-century or early fifteenth-century manuscript of Alfonso el Sabio's Primera cronica general. Grieve's diverges from other comparative studies of the story by centralizing the Spanish tradition and by contextualizing the Cronica and ...
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