Author:
Doggett, Laine E.
Imprint:University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, c2009.
Descriptionx, 291 p. ; 23 cm.
Note: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 -- Reworked elements in Amadas et Ydoine -- Conclusion.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [268]-286) and index.
Note:"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.
