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

  • Doggett, Laine E.
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[2009], ©2009
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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.

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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.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    PQE.AI.AA2-4
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ISBN

  • 9780271035307
  • 0271035307
  • 9780271035314
  • 0271035315