La réception de Flores y Blancaflor dans la péninsule Ibérique et dans le Nouveau Monde espagnol de la première modernité

Historia de los dos enamorados Flores y Blancaflor, printed multiple times in sixteenth century Spain, was also popular in the New World. The text reflects sixteenth century historical context of Christian-Muslim/morisco co-existence. We may see it as a precursor of the tradition of “maurophilia”. Many read the story as Spain’s early history, but I also place it within the context of the Spanish colonial public’s tendency to compare the assimilation of the moriscos in Spain to the efforts to convert indigenous peoples.