Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance /

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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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Doggett, Laine E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, ©2009.
Colección:Penn State Romance studies.
Temas:
To 1500
Geschichte 1250-1500.
Romances > History and criticism.
French literature > To 1500 > History and criticism.
Women healers in literature.
Magic in literature.
Love in literature.
Healing in literature.
Roman courtois > Histoire et critique.
Littérature française > Jusqu'à 1500 > Histoire et critique.
Magie dans la littérature.
Amour dans la littérature.
Guérison dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > French.
HISTORY > Medieval.
French literature
Healing in literature
Love in literature
Magic in literature
Romances
Women healers in literature
Höfisches Epos
Liebe > Motiv
Heilerin
Magie
Liebeszauber
Französisch.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Background considerations
  • On artifice and realism : Thessala in Chrétien de Troyes's Cligés
  • 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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