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A history of the heart / Ole M. Hystad.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hystad, O. M.
- Standardized Title:
- Hjertets kulturhistorie fra antikken til var tid. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body in popular culture.
- Heart in art.
- Heart in literature.
- Heart--Mythology.
- Heart.
- Heart--Symbolic aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Reaktion, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A fascinating investigation into the heart, the locus of grief, joy, and power, through human culture, history, myth and science.
- Contents:
- A History of the Heart Cover; Imprint page; Contents; Contents (ii); Preface; Introduction; Part I: The Heart in Different Cultures; 1. The World of Gilgamesh; 2. Ancient Egypt; 3. The Complex Man of Antiquity; 4. The Heart in the Bible and in Christianity; 5. Islam's Culture of the Heart; 6. The Aztecs - Why So Heartless?; 7. Norse Anthropology; Part II: The Battle for the Western Heart; 8. The Emotional Turn in the High Middle Ages; 9. The New Subject; 10. Montaigne: Man is his Own Work; 11. From the Renaissance and Alchemy to the Romantic Era; 12. Shakespeare and the Heart of Darkness
- 13. Rousseau - Philosopher of the Heart; 14. Herder and the Expressivist Turn; 15. Faustian Goethe; 16. The Disenchantment and Re-enchantment of the Heart; Coda: The Emotional Cycle; References; Bibliography; Photo Acknowledgements; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786612893094
- 9781282893092
- 1282893092
- 9781861898333
- 1861898339
- OCLC:
- 676697998
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