The medieval heart /Heather Webb.
Webb, Heather, 1976-
The medieval heart /Heather Webb. - New Haven [Conn. : Yale University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (x, 241 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The sovereign heart -- The porous heart -- The engendering heart -- The animate heart.
"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. Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, she reveals medieval answers to such fundamental questions as: Where is life located? What does it consist of? Where does it begin? And how does it end? Against the modern idea of the isolated self, the medieval heart provides a model for rethinking the body's relationship to the world it inhabits."--Jacket
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780300153941
Civilization, Medieval.
Human body (Philosophy)--History.
Heart--Symbolic aspects--History.
Medical literature--History--To 1500.
Heart in literature.
Mind and body--History.
Heart.
Medicine, Medieval.
Electronic Books.
CB351 / .M435 2010
The medieval heart /Heather Webb. - New Haven [Conn. : Yale University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (x, 241 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
The sovereign heart -- The porous heart -- The engendering heart -- The animate heart.
"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. Drawing from the works of Dante, Catherine of Siena, Boccaccio, Aquinas, and Cavalcanti and other literary, philosophic, and scientific texts, she reveals medieval answers to such fundamental questions as: Where is life located? What does it consist of? Where does it begin? And how does it end? Against the modern idea of the isolated self, the medieval heart provides a model for rethinking the body's relationship to the world it inhabits."--Jacket
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212
9780300153941
Civilization, Medieval.
Human body (Philosophy)--History.
Heart--Symbolic aspects--History.
Medical literature--History--To 1500.
Heart in literature.
Mind and body--History.
Heart.
Medicine, Medieval.
Electronic Books.
CB351 / .M435 2010