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Love Cures:

Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance
  • ISBN-13: 9780271035307
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Laine E. Doggett
  • Price: AUD $180.00
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  • Local release date: 28/08/2009
  • Format: Hardback 304 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: European history [HBJD]
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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.


Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Background Considerations

2. On Artifice and Realism: Thessala in Chrétien de Troyes’s Cligés

3. Tristan and Iseut:

Beyond a Symbolic Reading of Empirical Practice

4. Tristan and Iseut: Empirical Practice Amidst Competing Claims

5. Love and Medicine in the Roman de Silence

6. Reworked Elements in Amadas et Ydoine

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index



“In this appealing study, [Laine Doggett] traces romantic love as a form of intoxication back to the Middle Ages and endeavors to demystify the concept of love magic through an analysis of several romances in which love and healing are intertwined.”

—Joan Tasker Grimbert, French Review

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