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Doggett, Laine E.

Love Cures Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / Laine E. Doggett. - 1 online resource (x, 291 p.) - Penn State Romance studies . - Penn State Romance studies. Book collections on Project MUSE. .

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.

Open Access

"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.

ISBN: 9780271052571 0271052570

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Healing in literature.
Love in literature.
Magic in literature.
Women healers in literature.
French literature--History and criticism.--To 1500
Romances--History and criticism.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: PQ221 / .D64 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 840.9/37