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Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance
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Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance

Author: Laine E Doggett
Publisher: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009.
Series: Penn State Romance studies.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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"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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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Laine E Doggett
ISBN: 9780271035307 0271035307 9780271035314 0271035315
OCLC Number: 304384833
Description: x, 291 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
Series Title: Penn State Romance studies.
Responsibility: Laine E. Doggett.

Abstract:

"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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