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UNINA9910997094803321 |
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Autore |
Doggett Laine E |
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Titolo |
Love Cures : Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / / Laine E. Doggett |
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University Park, Pa. : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2009 |
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©2009 |
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ISBN |
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0-271-05505-7 |
0-7210-5023-9 |
0-271-05257-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (x, 291 p.) |
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Collana |
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Penn State Romance studies |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Healing in literature |
Love in literature |
Magic in literature |
Women healers in literature |
French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism |
Romances - History and criticism |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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