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

Published by Medieval Institute Publications 2019

The Feeling Heart in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Meaning, Embodiment, and Making

Edited by: Katie Barclay and Bronwyn Reddan

Volume 67 in the series Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513275

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

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
The Feeling Heart: Meaning, Embodiment, and Making Katie Barclay and Bronwyn Reddan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1: Meaningful Hearts
1. The Flaming Heart: Pious and Amorous Passion in Early Modern European Medical and Visual Culture Patricia Simons Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Matter(s) of the Heart in Yvain and Ívens saga Chloé Vondenhoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
3. Two Views of the Feeling Heart in Troubadour Song Carol J. Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
4. The Battle for Control of the Heart in Charles Perrault’s Dialogue de l’Amour et l’Amitié (1660) Bronwyn Reddan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
Part 2: Embodied Hearts
5. The Leper’s Courageous Heart in Jean Bodel’s Les Congés Kathryn L. Smithies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
6. “For wele or woo”: Lyrical Negotiations of the Cognizant Heart in Middle English Clare Davidson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
7. “The Grave Where Buried Love Doth Live”: Hearts-Imagery and Bakhtinian Grotesque in Early Modern English Poetry Colin Yeo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
8. Heart Tombs: Catherine de’ Medici and the Embodiment of Emotion Susan Broomhall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Part 3: Productive Hearts
9. The Medieval Spirituality of “Purity of Heart” and “Heart-piercing Goodness” in Selected Works of St. Anselm of Canterbury June-Ann Greeley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
10. Spotless Mirror, Martyred Heart: The Heart of Mary in Jesuit Devotions (Seventeeth–Eighteenth Centuries) Eleonora Rai Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
11. “An Heart that can Feel for Another”: Love Tokens and the Icon of the Heart in Eighteenth-Century Britain Bridget Millmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	203
12. The Hearts of a Private Archive from France, Saxony, and England Elizabeth C. Macknight Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	220
Further Reading Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	245
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247

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Language: English
Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
Audience: Medievalists, Scholars of History Studies, Religious Studies and Music Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 10
- Main content: 260
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 18
Keywords: Heart; Emotion; Embodiment; Middle Ages; Early Modern Era

eBook

Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9781501513275

Hardcover

Published: December 2, 2019
ISBN: 9781501517877