Love Cures [electronic resource] : Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / Laine E. Doggett.

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Doggett, Laine E

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Project Muse

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TextSeries: Penn State Romance studies | Book collections on Project MUSEPublication details: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009. 2015)Description: 1 online resource (x, 291 p. )Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780271052571
0271052570

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Electronic books.

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840.9/37 22

LOC classification:

PQ221 .D64 2009

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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.

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

"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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