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De Blanchefleur á Blanzeflor: de la jeune fille á la sainte reine

Virgile Reiter

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This essay explores the changes made by the Scandinavian translators of Floire and Blanchefleur to Blanchefleur’s characterization, emphasizing her role in Floire’s conversion to Christianity. The translators probably were clerics and as such saw an opportunity in Blanzeflor to push the Church agenda for married women. After cen- turies of debate by Christian thinkers on how to manage female sexuality in marriage, the Church of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries appeared to have settled the question: married women should exploit their privileged positions to try and keep their husbands away from sin. However, as a queen, Blanzeflor’s duties don’t stop with her husband: she also has to keep her subjects in check and her husband’s realm healthy.
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Virgile Reiter. De Blanchefleur á Blanzeflor: de la jeune fille á la sainte reine. Sofia Lodén; Olle Ferm; Ingela Hedström; Jonatan Pettersson; Mia Åkestam. The Eufemiavisor and Courtly Culture: Time, Texts and Cultural Transfer, eds. Ferm, Hedström, Lodén, Pettersson and Åkestam, Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien, 2015, 978-91-7402-436-4. ⟨hal-01938047⟩
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