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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Penn State Romance studies | Book collections on Project MUSE | Penn State Romance studiesPublication details: University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [(c)2009.; Baltimore, Maryland : Project MUSE, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 291 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 0271052570
  • 9780271052571
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PQ221 .D644 2009
  • PQ221.D654.L684 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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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.

"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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