Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance / Laine E. Doggett.
Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance / Laine E. Doggett.
Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance / Laine E. Doggett.
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University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009.
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N840.937/1
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English
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x, 291 p. ; 23 cm.
Contents
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 -- Re...
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Publisher
University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009.
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania
Date Published
c2009.
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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.
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Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance / Laine E. Doggett.
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Penn State Romance studies.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index.
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c2009.
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N840.937/1
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74VvBlapjzdM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VvBlapjzdM
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ISBN
0271035315 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780271035307 (cloth : alk. paper)
0271035307 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780271035314 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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840.937
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991016599109702626
