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Milad Doueihi.
A Perverse History of the Human Heart.

Published Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard U.P., 1997 (previously issued in French, 1996).
ISBN 067466325X.
Binding: hardback, stitch bound; published without a dustjacket.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 146×215×18mm.
Page count: ix,172pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy is unused, but shows evidence of long-term storage — the usual marks & scuffs, etc., noticeable but not severe.


This item £10.00
P&P inc.
within the UK
(delivery outside the UK not currently available)

[Publisher’s price $50.50/ £37.95 / €45.50]
Weight without packaging: 387g.

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No overall medieval emphasis. “…follows the adventures of the human heart through custom, legend, religion, and literature from antiquity to early modern times.”

Contents: Lure of the heart; “Vide cor tuum”; A lover’s course — “le coeur mangé”; Elephantine marriage & devout sexuality; trials & tribulations of the human heart.

Illustrations: 7 monochrome
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at end of book
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: 7pp
Index: yes

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