{"product_id":"love-cures-laine-e-doggett-9780271035314","title":"Love Cures: Healing and Love Magic in Old French Romance","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat 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 \u003ci\u003eLove Cures\u003c\/i\u003e. 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. \u003ci\u003eLove Cures \u003c\/i\u003eargues that these practitioners, as represented in romance, have shaped modern notions of love. \u003ci\u003eLove Cures\u003c\/i\u003e seeks to engage scholars of love, marriage, and magic in disciplines as diverse as literature, history, anthropology, and philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Laine E. Doggett\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0271035315\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780271035314\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penn State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.98lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2010","brand":"Laine E. Doggett","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48135956857087,"sku":"9780271035314","price":41.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_db80c3eb-a0d4-4e56-83f9-43b47572cec6.jpg?v=1770159563","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/love-cures-laine-e-doggett-9780271035314","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}