‘Blandin de Cornoalha’, A Comic Occitan Romance

edited and translated by Wendy Pfeffer, translated by Margaret Burrell

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Extent: 292 pages

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Subjects: Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: TEAMS Varia

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2022)

ISBN: 9781580445245

Price: $69.00

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PDF (Published)

(September 2022)

ISBN: 9781580445252

Price: $28.00

~ENG~A new edition and translation of a comic medieval romance from the south of France.


The volume makes available for the first time in English an edition of the medieval romance Blandin de Cornoalha, accompanied by a translation and introduction to the work. Composed in the second half of the fourteenth century by an anonymous author, the story offers the first recording of the Sleeping Beauty folktale, incorporated into the adventures of two knights. Many elements in the romance are comic, suggesting that Blandin is not simply a tale of knights in battle, but also a parody of medieval romance in general.

  • By (author) Medieval Institute Publications
  • Translated by Margaret Burrell
  • Edited and translated by Wendy Pfeffer