Doggett, Laine E. <br/><br/>
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. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780271052571 0271052570 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Healing in literature.<br/>Love in literature.<br/>Magic in literature.<br/>Women healers in literature.<br/>French literature--History and criticism.--To 1500<br/>Romances--History and criticism.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books. 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ221  / .D64 2009 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>840.9/37