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Author Doggett, Laine E.

Title Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance / Laine E. Doggett.

Publication Info. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]
©2009
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Description 1 online resource (x, 291 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Penn State Romance studies
Penn State Romance studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-286) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Background considerations -- On artifice and realism : Thessala in Chrétien de Troyes's Cligés -- 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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Subject Romances -- History and criticism.
Romances.
French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism.
French literature.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Women healers in literature.
Women healers in literature.
Magic in literature.
Magic in literature.
Love in literature.
Love in literature.
Healing in literature.
Healing in literature.
Chronological Term Geschichte 1250-1500
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Other Form: Print version: Doggett, Laine E. Love cures. University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009 9780271035307 (DLC) 2009003734 (OCoLC)304384833
ISBN 9780271058924 (electronic book)
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