Wacks, David A.2016-01-072016-01-072015Wacks, David. “Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor: Romance, Conversion, and Internal Orientalism.” Narrative Culture 2.2 (2015): 270–288.https://hdl.handle.net/1794/19479Crónica de Flores y Blancaflor is a medieval romance interpolated into a thirteenth-century account of the struggles of the kings of Asturias (eighth–ninth centuries) with the Umayyad Caliphate in Cordova. In this essay I demonstrate how the chronicler mapped political concerns onto courtly adventure narrative in order to promote ideologies of conquest and conversion. Flores’s conversion to Christianity in the context of his lifelong love relationship with Blancaflor is a metaphor for the Christian dream of the conquest of al-Andalus and the conversion of Iberian Muslims and Jews.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-SAromance,Estoria de España,Alfonso X, Sancho IV,historiography, narrative,conversion,OrientalismArticle