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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