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Record Nr.

UNINA9910491846103321

Autore

Doggett Laine E

Titolo

Love Cures : Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / / Laine E. Doggett

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pa. : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-271-05505-7

0-7210-5023-9

0-271-05257-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 291 p.)

Collana

Penn State Romance studies

Disciplina

840.9/37

Soggetti

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.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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.