Love Cures : Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / Laine E. Doggett.
| Author/creator | Doggett, Laine E. |
| Other author | Project Muse. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015) |
| Description | 1 online resource (x, 291 pages ). |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available: |
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| Series | Penn State Romance studies Penn State Romance studies. ^A769331 Book collections on Project MUSE. UNAUTHORIZED |
| 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. |
| Abstract | "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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on print version record. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2009003734 |
| ISBN | 9780271052571 |
| ISBN | 0271052570 |