Love after Death: Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Love after Death: Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe
ISBN-10
305006529X
ISBN-13
9783050065298
Series
Love After Death
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
183
Language
English
Published
2014-12-11
Publisher
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Authors
Bernhard Jussen, Ramie Targoff

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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