The Medieval Heart
Heather Webb
Abstract
This book 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. Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti, as well as other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, the book reveals medieval answers to such fundamental questions as: Where is life located? Of what does it consist? Where does it begin? How does it end? Against the modern idea of the isolated self, the medieval heart ... More
Keywords: medieval era, heart, Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Thomas Aquinas, Cavalcanti, isolated self
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780300153934 |
| Published to Yale Scholarship Online: October 2013 | DOI:10.12987/yale/9780300153934.001.0001 |
