Love Cures : Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance /

"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.

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Main Author: Doggett, Laine E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009.
Series:Penn State Romance studies.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.