The hearts of a private archive from France, Saxony, and England

Elizabeth Chalmers Macknight

doi:10.1515/9781501513275-013

The hearts of a private archive from France, Saxony, and England

Elizabeth Chalmers Macknight

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Feeling Heart in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
Subtitle of host publication	Meaning, Embodiment and Making
Editors	Katie Barclay, Bronwyn Reddan
Place of Publication	Berlin
Publisher	Walter de Gruyter
Pages	220-239
Number of pages	20
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5015-1327-5, 978-1-5015-1322-0
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5015-1787-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501513275-013
Publication status	Published - Dec 2019

Publication series

Name	Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Publisher	De Gruyter
Volume	67
ISSN (Print)	0085-6878

Keywords

the heart
emotion
embodiment
medieval
early modern

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The hearts of a private archive from France, Saxony, and England. / Macknight, Elizabeth Chalmers.
The Feeling Heart in Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Meaning, Embodiment and Making. ed. / Katie Barclay; Bronwyn Reddan. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2019. p. 220-239 (Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Culture; Vol. 67).

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The hearts of a private archive from France, Saxony, and England

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