Eternal Hearts—History of Heart Burial in Europe

1. Introduction
   1. Introduction
   2. Heart Burial—History and Significance
2. The myth of the heart in the modern age
3. The heart in Ancient Egypt
4. Motives of Heart Burial
   1. The Middle Ages
   2. Renaissance and Baroque
   3. Modern Times
5. Early burials of hearts and entrails
6. The crusades, the papal ban on heart burial, autopsies in scholastic medicine
7. Typology of heart graves, shape of urns, exhumation of heart graves
8. Heart Relics
9. The hearts of the French Kings
10. The House of Habsburg
11. Bavarian Hearts
12. Hearts of religious leaders
13. The "Precordii" of the Popes
14. The Rest of Europe
15. The 19th century
16. The end of heart burials in the 20th century
17. Heart Transplantation—the life of the heart after death
18. Conclusion