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• ISBN 10: 0465094716
• ISBN 13: 9780465094714
• Author: Marilyn Yalom

An eminent scholar unearths the captivating history of the two-lobed heart symbol from scripture and tapestry to T-shirts and text messages, shedding light on how we have expressed love since antiquity The symmetrical, exuberant heart is everywhere: it gives shape to candy, pendants, the frothy milk on top of a cappuccino, and much else. How can we explain the ubiquity of what might be the most recognizable symbol in the world? In The Amorous Heart, Marilyn Yalom tracks the heart metaphor and heart iconography across two thousand years, through Christian theology, pagan love poetry, medieval painting, Shakespearean drama, Enlightenment science, and into the present. She argues that the symbol reveals a tension between love as romantic and sexual on the one hand, and as religious and spiritual on the other. Ultimately, the heart symbol is a guide to the astonishing variety of human affections, from the erotic to the chaste and from the unrequited to the conjugal.

Table of contents:

Chapter One The Amorous Heart in Antiquity

Chapter Two Arabic Songs from the Heart

Chapter Three The Heart Icon’s First Ancestors

Chapter Four French and German Songs from the Heart

Chapter Five Romances of the Heart

Chapter Six Exchanging Hearts with Jesus

Chapter Seven Caritas, or the Italianized Heart

Chapter Eight Birth of an Icon

Chapter Nine A Separate Burial for the Heart

Chapter Ten The Independent Heart

Chapter Eleven The Return of Cupid

Chapter Twelve The Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Chapter Thirteen How Shakespeare Probed the Heart’s Secrets

Chapter Fourteen Heart and Brain

Chapter Fifteen Exposing the Female Heart

Chapter Sixteen The Heart in Popular Culture

Chapter Seventeen Hearts and Hands

Chapter Eighteen Romanticism, or the Reign of the Heart

Chapter Nineteen Valentines

Chapter Twenty I ♥ U

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