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Autore: | Doggett Laine E |
Titolo: | Love Cures : Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / / Laine E. Doggett |
Pubblicazione: | University Park, Pa. : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , 2009 |
©2009 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (x, 291 p.) |
Disciplina: | 840.9/37 |
Soggetto topico: | Healing in literature |
Love in literature | |
Magic in literature | |
Women healers in literature | |
French literature - To 1500 - History and criticism | |
Romances - History and criticism | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Love Cures |
ISBN: | 0-271-05505-7 |
0-7210-5023-9 | |
0-271-05257-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910524901103321 |
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