The Feeling Heart in Medieval and Early Modern Europe : : Meaning, Embodiment, and Making /

The Feeling Heart in Medieval and Early Modern Europe : : Meaning, Embodiment, and Making / / ed. by Bronwyn Reddan, Katie Barclay.

The heart is an iconic symbol in the medieval and early modern European world. In addition to being a physical organ, it is a key conceptual device related to emotions, cognition, the self and identity, and the body. The heart is read as a metaphor for human desire and will, and situated in oppositi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2019 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Barclay, Katie,
Broomhall, Susan,
Davidson, Clare,
Greeley, June-Ann,
Macknight, Elizabeth C.,
Millmore, Bridget,
Rai, Eleonora,
Reddan, Bronwyn,
Simons, Patricia,
Smithies, Kathryn L.,
Vondenhoff, Chloé,
Williams, Carol J.,
Yeo, Colin,
HerausgeberIn:
Barclay, Katie,
Reddan, Bronwyn,
Place / Publishing House:Kalamazoo, MI : : Medieval Institute Publications, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture , 67
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Physical Description:1 online resource (X, 260 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • The Feeling Heart: Meaning, Embodiment, and Making
  • Part 1: Meaningful Hearts
  • 1. The Flaming Heart: Pious and Amorous Passion in Early Modern European Medical and Visual Culture
  • 2. Matter(s) of the Heart in Yvain and Ívens saga
  • 3. Two Views of the Feeling Heart in Troubadour Song
  • 4. The Battle for Control of the Heart in Charles Perrault’s Dialogue de l’Amour et l’Amitié (1660)
  • Part 2: Embodied Hearts
  • 5. The Leper’s Courageous Heart in Jean Bodel’s Les Congés
  • 6. “For wele or woo”: Lyrical Negotiations of the Cognizant Heart in Middle English
  • 7. “The Grave Where Buried Love Doth Live”: Hearts-Imagery and Bakhtinian Grotesque in Early Modern English Poetry
  • 8. Heart Tombs: Catherine de’ Medici and the Embodiment of Emotion
  • Part 3: Productive Hearts
  • 9. The Medieval Spirituality of “Purity of Heart” and “Heart-piercing Goodness” in Selected Works of St. Anselm of Canterbury
  • 10. Spotless Mirror, Martyred Heart: The Heart of Mary in Jesuit Devotions (Seventeeth–Eighteenth Centuries)
  • 11. “An Heart that can Feel for Another”: Love Tokens and the Icon of the Heart in Eighteenth-Century Britain
  • 12. The Hearts of a Private Archive from France, Saxony, and England
  • Further Reading
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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