Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Amorous Heart in Antiquity 7
Chapter 2 Arabic Songs from the Heart 19
Chapter 3 The Heart Icon's First Ancestors 25
Chapter 4 French and German Songs from the Heart 33
Chapter 5 Romances of the Heart 43
Chapter 6 Exchanging Hearts with Jesus 59
Chapter 7 Caritas, or the Italianized Heart 69
Chapter 8 Birth of an Icon 83
Chapter 9 A Separate Burial for the Heart 95
Chapter 10 The Independent Heart 105
Chapter 11 The Return of Cupid 113
Chapter 12 The Reformation and Counter-Reformation 125
Chapter 13 How Shakespeare Probed the Heart's Secrets 137
Chapter 14 Heart and Brain 149
Chapter 15 Exposing the Female Heart 159
Chapter 16 The Heart in Popular Culture 171
Chapter 17 Hearts and Hands 179
Chapter 18 Romanticism, or the Reign of the Heart 189
Chapter 19 Valentines 205
Chapter 20 I ♥ U 219
Acknowledgments 229
Notes 231
Bibliography 255
Index 261