Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance

Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance

Laine E. Doggett
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यह पुस्तक आपको कितनी अच्छी लगी?
फ़ाइल की गुणवत्ता क्या है?
पुस्तक की गुणवत्ता का मूल्यांकन करने के लिए यह पुस्तक डाउनलोड करें
डाउनलोड की गई फ़ाइलों की गुणवत्ता क्या है?

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 pop 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 Curesargues 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 anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies.

श्रेणियाँ:
सामग्री का प्रकार:
पुस्तकें
साल:
2009
प्रकाशन:
Penn State Press
भाषा:
english
पृष्ठ:
256
ISBN 10:
0271035315
ISBN 13:
9780271035314
श्रृंखला:
Penn State Romance Studies
फ़ाइल:
PDF, 7.36 MB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2009
pdf, 7.36 MB
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