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

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What is love? Popular culture bombards us with notions of the intoxicating capacities of love or of beguiling women who can bewitch or heal--to the point that it is easy to believe that such images are timeless and universal. Not so, argues Laine Doggett in Love Cures. Aspects of love that are expre...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Doggett, Laine E. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:In English.
Published: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]
Series:Penn State Romance Studies
Subjects:
HISTORY / Medieval.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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