Description:
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.
Brief description: Laine E. Doggett is Associate Professor of French at St. Mary's College, Maryland.
Review Quotes:
"In this appealing study, [Laine Doggett] traces romantic love as a form of intoxication back to the Middle Ages and endeavors to demystify the concept of love magic through an analysis of several romances in which love and healing are intertwined."
--Joan Tasker Grimbert French Review