- Description
- 1 online resource (x, 291 p.)
- 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.
- Series Statement
- Penn State Romance studies
- Uniform Title
- Love cures (Online)
- Penn State Romance studies.
- Alternative Title
- Love cures (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2009003734
- OCLC
- ssj0000607404
- Author
Doggett, Laine E.
- Title
Love cures [electronic resource] : healing and love magic in old French romance / Laine E. Doggett.
- Imprint
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009.
- Series
Penn State Romance studies
Penn State Romance studies.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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