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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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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University Park, Pa. :
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Penn State Romance studies.
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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.