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L Aufs'ät£e R o g e r M. W a l k e r , L o n d o n /. The Folktale Basis of the Chanson de Florence It has long been recognized that the Heroine of the Chanson de Florence is a member of a group of diaracters that seems to have been especially appreciated by the medieval public -- the beautiful and virtuous queen or princess who is unjustly persecuted, but who triumphs in the end. Florence of Rome is the literary sister of, among others, Constance in Chaucer's Man of Law's Tale, the daughter of Antiochus in the many versions of the Apollonius story, la belle Hilene de Constantinople, Crescentia, Hildegard, and Olive in Doon de la Röche. However, although sudi heroines abound in medieval European literature in many languages, they are by no means a medieval or even European creation. Like so much eise in the epics and romances of the Middle Ages, äs is now being gradually realized, their origin lies deep in international folklore1. A. Aarne and S. Thompson in their great study, The Types of the Folktale, list versions of the tale of the unjustly accused and persecuted lady
Fabula – de Gruyter
Published: Jan 1, 1982
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