Love Cures : Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / Laine E. Doggett.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penn State Romance studies | Penn State Romance studies | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2011Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (304 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780271058832
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 840.9/37 22
LOC classification:
  • PQ221 .D64 2009
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Contents:
Introduction -- Background considerations -- On artifice and realism : Thessala in Chretien de Troyes's Cliges -- Tristan and Iseut : beyond a symbolic reading of empirical practice -- Tristan and Iseut : empirical practice amidst competing claims -- Love and medicine in the Roman de silence -- Reworked elements in Amadas et Ydoine -- Conclusion.
Summary: "Examines literary portrayals of women who practice healing and love magic, and argues that these figures were modeled on informally trained practitioners common in the magico-medical paradigm of the high Middle Ages, and were well-respected and successful"--Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index.

Introduction -- Background considerations -- On artifice and realism : Thessala in Chretien de Troyes's Cliges -- Tristan and Iseut : beyond a symbolic reading of empirical practice -- Tristan and Iseut : empirical practice amidst competing claims -- Love and medicine in the Roman de silence -- Reworked elements in Amadas et Ydoine -- Conclusion.

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"Examines literary portrayals of women who practice healing and love magic, and argues that these figures were modeled on informally trained practitioners common in the magico-medical paradigm of the high Middle Ages, and were well-respected and successful"--Provided by publisher.

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