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Title Love after death : concepts of posthumous love in medieval and early modern Europe / Bernhard Jussen and Ramie Targoff, Eds.).

Publication Info. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource.
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Series WeltLiteraturen/World Literatures. Schriftenreihe der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien, 2198-9370 ; Band 4
WeltLiteraturen ; Bd. 4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Summary 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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Subject Love -- Religious aspects -- Miscellanea.
Love -- Religious aspects.
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Subject Future life.
Future life.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Added Author Jussen, Bernhard, editor.
Other Form: 9783050102740
(GyWOH)har140286746
9783050065298
(GyWOH)har145023950
Print version: Love after death. 9783050062723 305006272X (DLC) 2014037188
ISBN 9783050065298 (electronic book)
305006529X (electronic book)
9783050062723 (alkaline paper)
305006272X (alkaline paper)
9783110380026 (EPUB)
3110380021 (EPUB)

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