TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doggett,Laine E.
ED  - Project Muse.
TI  - Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance 
T2  - Penn State Romance studies
SN  - 9780271052571
AV  - PQ221 .D64 2009
U1  - 840.9/37 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - University Park, Pa.
PB  - Pennsylvania State University Press
KW  - Healing in literature
KW  - Love in literature
KW  - Magic in literature
KW  - Women healers in literature
KW  - French literature
KW  - To 1500
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Romances
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index; 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
N2  - "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
UR  - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/295/
ER  -