Love Cures

Name: Love Cures
Brand: Pennsylvania State University Press
SKU: 9780271035314
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Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance

Autor: Laine E. Doggett

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Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Pennsylvania State University Press

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

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What is love? Popular culture bombards us with notions of the intoxicating capacities of love or of...

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Autor

Laine E. Doggett

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2009

Stránek

304

EAN

9780271035314

ISBN

0271035315

Enbook ID

04564482

Vydavatel

Pennsylvania State University Press

Hmotnost

454

Rozměry

152 x 229 x 21

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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 expressed in popular music-such as "love is a drug," "sexual healing," and "love potion number nine"-trace deep roots to Old French romance of the high Middle Ages. A young woman heals a poisoned knight. A mother prepares a love potion for a daughter who will marry a stranger in a faraway land. How can readers interpret such events? In contrast to scholars who have dismissed these women as fantasy figures or labeled them "witches," Doggett looks at them in the light of medical and magical practices of the high Middle Ages. Love Cures argues that these practitioners, as represented in romance, have shaped modern notions of love. Love Cures seeks to engage scholars of love, marriage, and magic in disciplines as diverse as literature, history, anthropology, and philosophy.

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