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Academy of America, 1991.
Sapin, Christian. “Saint-Pierre de Flavigny: l’ancienne abbatiale et ses cryptes.” Congrès
archéologique (1986):97–109.
——. La Bourgogne préroman. Paris: Picard, 1986.
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d’archéologie offerts au professeur K.J.Conant par l’Association Splendide Bourgogne. Mâcon:
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FLODOARD DE REIMS
(893–966). Frankish chronicler. The history of west Francia in the first three-quarters of
the 10th century is known principally through the Annales of Flodoard. This canon of
Reims recorded the events from 919 to his own death in 966, focusing on the royal court
and the great men of northern Francia. He continued the annals begun by Hincmar of
Reims and was succeeded as a chronicler by Richer. Flodoard’s other major work was a
history of the bishopric of Reims, which also includes many details of 10th-century
political history.
Constance B.Bouchard
Flodoard de Reims. Les annales, ed. Philippe Lauer. Paris: Picard, 1905.
——. Historia Remensis ecclesiae. In Monumenta Germaniae historica, Scriptores. Berlin,
Hannover, Weimar, 1872–1923, Vol. 13, pp. 409–599.
Dunbabin, Jean. France in the Making, 843–1180. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985, chap. 2.
FLOIRE ET BLANCHEFLOR
. This idyllic romance, based on the story of “Neema and Noam” in the Thousand and
One Nights, exists in two versions, both anonymous. The earlier (ca. 1160; 3,342
octosyllabic lines in manuscript A) is courtly in inspiration and preserved in four
manuscripts (A: B.N. fr. 375; B: B.N. fr. 1447; C: B.N. fr. 12562, and, as a fragment, in
V: Vatican, Palatinus, lat. 1971). A 13th-century reworking, more popular in tone, is
preserved in one manuscript and incomplete (3,448 octosyllables; B.N. fr. 19152). Both
versions tell of two children born on the same day, one to a pagan queen, the other to a
Christian captive, who are brought up together at court and fall in love. King Fénix
(Galerïen in the popular version) opposes their union, sells Blancheflor into captivity and
tells the hero she has died, building a magnificent tomb to support this fiction. Only when
Floire becomes ill does he reveal his deceit. The young man searches through the East
and discovers that Blancheflor is held captive by an emir. He bribes a porter with a
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