The medieval heart [[electronic resource] /] / Heather Webb

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910463111303321
• Autore: Webb Heather <1976->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2010
• ISBN: 1-299-46397-5; 0-300-15394-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (252 p.)
• Disciplina: 909.07
• Soggetti: Civilization, Medieval; Human body (Philosophy) - History; Heart - Symbolic aspects - History; Medical literature - History - To 1500; Heart in literature; Mind and body - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.