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Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor: Romance, Conversion, and Internal Orientalism
- Author(s):
- David Wacks (see profile)
- Date:
- 2015
- Group(s):
- Medieval and Early Modern Jewish History, Literature, and Culture, Sephardi / Mizrahi Studies
- Subject(s):
- Literature, Medieval, Spanish language
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- Alfonso X, Estoria de Espanna, Floire et Blancheflor, Medieval literature
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6Z618
- Abstract:
- Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenthcentury account of the struggles of the Kings of Asturias (eighth-ninth centuries) with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova. In this essay I demonstrate how the chronicler mapped political concerns onto courtly adventure narrative in order to promote ideologies of conquest and conversion. Flores' conversion to Christianity in the context of his lifelong love relationship with Blancaflor is a metaphor for the Christian dream of the conquest of al-Andalus and the conversion of Iberian Muslims and Jews.
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- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article Show details
- Publisher:
- Wayne State University Press
- Pub. Date:
- 2015
- Journal:
- Narrative Culture
- Volume:
- 2
- Issue:
- 2
- Page Range:
- 270 - 288
- ISSN:
- 2169-0235
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 7 years ago
- License:
- Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike
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