Love cures : healing and love magic in old French romance / Laine E. Doggett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doggett, Laine E., author.

, Penn State University Libraries, Author.

Contributor:

funder.

Series:

Penn State Romance studies.

Penn State Romance studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Healing in literature.

Love in literature.

Magic in literature.

Women healers in literature.

French literature--To 1500--History and criticism.

French literature.

Romances--History and criticism.

Romances.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

(Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015).

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pa. : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2009]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Doggett Laine E. : Laine E. Doggett is Associate Professor of French at St. Mary's College, Maryland.Laine E. Doggett is Associate Professor of French at St. Mary's College, Maryland.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Front Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Interest Politics and the Popular Sectors

1. Introduction: Popular Representation in the Interest Arena

2. Situating the Analysis: Analytic Approach, Cases, and Historical Context

3. Logics of Collective Action, State Linkages, and Aggregate Traits: The UP-Hub Versus the A-Net

Part II: Individual Participation in the Interest Arena

4. Direct Action and Associational Participation: Problem-Solving Repertoires of Individuals

5. Political Participation and Representational Distortion: The Nexus Between Associationalism and Partisan Politics

Part III: The Popular-Sector Interest Regime

6. Targeting State and Society: Strategic Repertoires of Associations

7. Three Forms of Scaling: Embeddedness, Nodal NGOs, and Flexible Fronts

8. Associational Linkages to Labor Unions and Political Parties

Part IV: Conclusion

9. General Patterns and Emergent Differences

Appendix A: Selection of Focus Districts

Appendix B: Survey of Associations

Appendix C: Survey of Individuals

Contributors

References

Index

Back Cover.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [268]-286) and index.

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ISBN:

0-271-05505-7

0-7210-5023-9

0-271-05257-0

0-271-05883-8

OCLC:

785940938