 | The Medieval Heart Subjects: Civilization Medieval; Human body (Philosophy) -- History; Heart -- Symbolic aspects -- History; Medical literature -- History -- To 1500; Heart in literature; Mind and body -- History; 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. Heather Webb is Associate Professor of Italian, Department of French and Italian, at The Ohio State University. She lives in Columbus, OH. |
