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.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
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.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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