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

By:

Doggett, Laine E [Author]

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Project Muse []

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Penn State Romance studies | Book collections on Project MUSE | Penn State Romance studiesManufacturer: Baltimore, Maryland : Project MUSE, 2011Description: 1 online resource (x, 291 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780271052571

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LOC classification:

PQ221
PQ221.P964.L684 2009

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Contents:

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.

Subject: "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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