Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance

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Label

Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance

Title remainder

healing and love magic in old French romance

Statement of responsibility

Laine E. Doggett

Creator

• Doggett, Laine E

Subject

• Electronic books
• Französisch
• French Literature
• French literature
• French literature -- To 1500 -- History and criticism
• Geschichte 1250-1500
• HISTORY -- Medieval
• Healing in literature
• Healing in literature
• Heilerin
• Höfisches Epos
• LITERARY CRITICISM -- European | French
• Languages & Literatures
• Liebe
• Liebeszauber
• Love in literature
• Love in literature
• Magic in literature
• Magic in literature
• Magie
• Romance Literatures
• Romances
• Romances -- History and criticism
• To 1500
• Women healers in literature
• Women healers in literature
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre

• Electronic books
• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

"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

Member of

• Penn State Romance studies

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

840.9/37

Index

index present

LC call number

PQ221

LC item number

.D64 2009eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

Series statement

Penn State Romance studies