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Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey

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  1. Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

    1. Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

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  • Investigates beyond the scientific and sentimental heart to discover valuable past mysteries.
  • Revises assumptions using original research.
  • Establishes the foundation of the heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, and Calvin.

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Table of contents (5 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
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  2. Aristotle’s Cardiac Vessel

    • Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle
    Pages 1-34

  3. Augustine’s Law of the Heart: Thieves’ Honor

    • Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle
    Pages 35-66

  4. Aquinas’s Law of the Heart: Natural Reason

    • Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle
    Pages 67-100

  5. Jean Calvin, Heart in Hand

    • Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle
    Pages 101-133

  6. Harvey, by Hercules! The Hero of the Blood’s Circulation

    • Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle
    Pages 135-167

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 169-171
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About this book

This book probes beneath modern scientific and sentimental concepts of the heart to discover its past mysteries. Historical hearts evidenced essential aspects of human existence that still endure in modern thought and experience of political community, psychological mentality, and physical vitality. Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle revises ordinary assumptions about the heart with original interdisciplinary research on religious beliefs and theological and philosophical ideas. Her book uncovers the thought of Aristotle, William Harvey, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and John Calvinas it relates to the heart. It analyzes Augustine’s outlaw heart in cultural deviance from biblical law; Aquinas’s problematic argument for the permanence of the natural law in the heart; and Calvin’s advocacy for an affective heart re-created by the Spirit from its fallen nature. This book of cultural anatomies is the climax of her dozen years of publications on the heart.


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“Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey … promise an exhaustive march through the cultural history of the heart by way of the varied thinkers … Boyle aims to creatively juxtapose the natural-scientific study of the cardiac vessel and the multiple valences of the ‘heart’ across two millennia of philosophical reflection.” (Sean Hannan, Reading Religion, readingreligion.org, May 18, 2019)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

About the author

Marjorie O’Rourke Boyle is an intellectual and cultural historian specializing in Christian thought from the biblical to the early modern eras. She was early awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in religion.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Cultural Anatomies of the Heart in Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Calvin, and Harvey

  • Authors: Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93653-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-93652-9Published: 24 September 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06699-4Published: 26 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-93653-6Published: 04 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXVIII, 171

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of Philosophy, Religion and Society, History of Science, Literary History

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