Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance / Laine E. Doggett.
- Doggett, Laine E.
- Date:
- [2009], ©2009
- Books
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Description
"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.
Publication/Creation
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009], ©2009.
Physical description
x, 291 pages ; 23 cm.
Contributors
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. [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.
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicinePQE.AI.AA2-4Open shelves
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ISBN
- 9780271035307
- 0271035307
- 9780271035314
- 0271035315