Medieval France
ROI FLORE ET LA BELLE JEANNE
. A mid-13th-century anonymous prose romance found in a single manuscript (B.N. fr. 24430; dated 1290), Roi Flore et la belle Jeanne is really two distinct stories forcibly combined. Written in Picard-Wallon dialect, the tale relates the adventures of Jehane, first as third wife of Flore, then as cross-dressed squire to her husband, Robert.
Wendy E.Pfeffer
Moland, Louis, and Charles d’Héricault, eds.
Nouvelles françoises du XIIIe siècle. Paris: Jannet, 1856, pp. 83–157.
Krueger, Roberta. “Double Jeopardy: The Appropriation of Women in Four Old French Romances of the ‘Cycle de la Gageure.’” In Seeking the Woman in Late Medieval and Renaissance Writings: Essays in Feminist Contextual Criti cism, ed. Sheila Fisher and Janet E.Halley. Knoxville: University of Tennesse Press, 1989, pp. 21–50.
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