Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Copyright
4. Dedication
5. Introduction
6. Chapter One The Amorous Heart in Antiquity
7. Chapter Two Arabic Songs from the Heart
8. Chapter Three The Heart Icon’s First Ancestors
9. Chapter Four French and German Songs from the Heart
10. Chapter Five Romances of the Heart
11. Chapter Six Exchanging Hearts with Jesus
12. Chapter Seven Caritas, or the Italianized Heart
13. Chapter Eight Birth of an Icon
14. Chapter Nine A Separate Burial for the Heart
15. Chapter Ten The Independent Heart
16. Chapter Eleven The Return of Cupid
17. Chapter Twelve The Reformation and Counter-Reformation
18. Chapter Thirteen How Shakespeare Probed the Heart’s Secrets
19. Chapter Fourteen Heart and Brain
20. Chapter Fifteen Exposing the Female Heart
21. Chapter Sixteen The Heart in Popular Culture
22. Chapter Seventeen Hearts and Hands
23. Chapter Eighteen Romanticism, or the Reign of the Heart
24. Chapter Nineteen Valentines
25. Chapter Twenty I ♥ U
26. Acknowledgments
27. About the Author
28. Also by Marilyn Yalom
29. Bibliography
30. Notes
31. Index