1. The Flaming Heart: Pious and Amorous Passion in Early Modern European Medical and Visual Culture

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. List of Figures IX
5. The Feeling Heart: Meaning, Embodiment, and Making 1
6. Part 1: Meaningful Hearts
7. 1. The Flaming Heart: Pious and Amorous Passion in Early Modern European Medical and Visual Culture 19
8. 2. Matter(s) of the Heart in Yvain and Ívens saga 43
9. 3. Two Views of the Feeling Heart in Troubadour Song 59
10. 4. The Battle for Control of the Heart in Charles Perrault’s Dialogue de l’Amour et l’Amitié (1660) 79
11. Part 2: Embodied Hearts
12. 5. The Leper’s Courageous Heart in Jean Bodel’s Les Congés 97
13. 6. “For wele or woo”: Lyrical Negotiations of the Cognizant Heart in Middle English 113
14. 7. “The Grave Where Buried Love Doth Live”: Hearts-Imagery and Bakhtinian Grotesque in Early Modern English Poetry 129
15. 8. Heart Tombs: Catherine de’ Medici and the Embodiment of Emotion 143
16. Part 3: Productive Hearts
17. 9. The Medieval Spirituality of “Purity of Heart” and “Heart-piercing Goodness” in Selected Works of St. Anselm of Canterbury 165
18. 10. Spotless Mirror, Martyred Heart: The Heart of Mary in Jesuit Devotions (Seventeeth–Eighteenth Centuries) 184
19. 11. “An Heart that can Feel for Another”: Love Tokens and the Icon of the Heart in Eighteenth-Century Britain 203
20. 12. The Hearts of a Private Archive from France, Saxony, and England 220
21. Further Reading 241
22. Notes on Contributors 245
23. Index 247