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In this text, Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the late 20th century. He focuses on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a book of the heart modelled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art.

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: 01/08/2000
      ISBN13: 9780226391168, 978-0226391168
      ISBN10: 0226391167
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      Book Synopsis
      In this text, Eric Jager traces the history and psychology of the self-as-text concept from antiquity to the late 20th century. He focuses on the Middle Ages, when the metaphor of a book of the heart modelled on the manuscript codex attained its most vivid expressions in literature and art.

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