Love Cures : Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance / / Laine E. Doggett
(Visualizza in formato marc)
(Visualizza in BIBFRAME)
| 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 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
| Opac: | Controlla la disponibilità qui |
Serie:
Penn State Romance studies.