Sophie M. C. Jordan

Taking Revenge on God’s Black Punisher: Blackness and Retribution in Diu Crône ’s Story World

In one episode of the early thirteenth-century romance Diu Crône , the presence of a dark-skinned “Moor” is featured quite literally as a blessing and a curse. Yet by simultaneously including two opposed perspectives on this God-sent punisher, the text fixates on his deeds and on his place in the story world, dispe...