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Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
1st Edition
Published on 11. December 2014
VI, 177 pages
978-3-05-006529-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book explores one of the central questions that has haunted husbands and wives and lovers over the millennia of history: What kind of afterlife might they expect for their love once one or both of them have died? Focusing on the evolution of ideas about posthumous love within medieval and early modern Europe, the book includes many religions and cultures in order to understand how expectations about the afterlife differed across traditions.
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Bernhard Jussen, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany; Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA.
Content
- Intro
- Content
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Love After Death. A Sketch
- Some Ancient Posthumous Lovers
- Posthumous Love as Culture. Outline of a Medieval Moral Pattern
- Posthumous Love in Judaism
- "That You Be Brought Near." Union beyond the Grave in the Arabic Literary Tradition
- Eros and Eschatology. Phantasms of Postmortal Love in Petrarch
- Love after Death in Garcilaso de la Vega
- Burying Romeo and Juliet: Love after Death in the English Renaissance
- Notes on Contributors
- Table of figures
- Index of names
