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.
- ISBN10 0300153937
- ISBN13 9780300153934
- Publish Date 23 March 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English