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 InfoUniversity Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Description1 online resource (x, 291 pages ).
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SeriesPenn State Romance studies
Penn State Romance studies. ^A769331
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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.
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 noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index.
Source of descriptionDescription based on print version record.
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009003734
ISBN9780271052571
ISBN0271052570