The Feeling Heart in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Meaning, Embodiment, and Making (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture, 67) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1501517872 ISBN 13: 9781501517877

Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications, 2019

Synopsis

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 opposition to or alongside reason and cognition. In medieval and early modern Europe, the “feeling heart” – the heart as the site of emotion and emotional practices – informed a broad range of art, literature, music, heraldry, medical texts, and devotional and ritual practices. This multidisciplinary collection brings together art historians, literary scholars, historians, theologians, and musicologists to highlight the range of meanings attached to the symbol of the heart, the relationship between physical and metaphorical representations of the heart, and the uses of the heart in the production of identities and communities in medieval and early modern Europe.

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About the Author

Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide, Australien und Bronwyn Reddan, University of Melbourne, Australien.

Katie Barclay, University of Adelaide, Australia, and Bronwyn Reddan, University of Melbourne, Australia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1501517872
• ISBN 13: 9781501517877
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 270
• Editor: Barclay Katie, Reddan Bronwyn