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The medieval heart / Heather Webb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Webb, Heather, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Civilization, Medieval.
- Human body (Philosophy)--History.
- Human body (Philosophy).
- Heart--Symbolic aspects--History.
- Heart.
- Medical literature--History--To 1500.
- Medical literature.
- Heart in literature.
- Mind and body--History.
- Mind and body.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 241 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, Heather Webb studies medieval notions of the heart to explore the "lost circulations" of an era when individual lives and bodies were defined by their extensions into the world rather than as self-perpetuating, self-limited entities.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1. The Sovereign Heart
- 2. The Porous Heart
- 3. The Engendering Heart
- 4. The Animate Heart
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-299-46397-5
- 0-300-15394-5
- OCLC:
- 841172486
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