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By Patricia E. Grieve

ISBN-10: 0521027675

ISBN-13: 9780521027670

ISBN-10: 052143162X

ISBN-13: 9780521431620

This comparative 1997 research examines a medieval love tale, Floire and Blancheflor, and exhibits how writers from Spain, France, Italy, England and Scandinavia remodeled the tale from the 12th to the 16th century to strengthen and emphasize social, political, non secular and inventive targets, whereas preserving its unique characteristics. It indicates the significance of a little-known medieval Spanish model to the advance of the tale all through Europe, and particularly as a precursor to Boccaccio's Il Filocolo, and examines very important problems with the advance of prose fiction in medieval and Renaissance Europe. This examine is exclusive for its breadth of assurance of 1 tale and for its inclusion of Spain as an important player within the improvement of medieval narrative.

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