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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jussen, Bernhard, editor.

Targoff, Ramie, editor.

Series:

WeltLiteraturen ; band 4.

WeltLiteraturen/World Literatures. Schriftenreihe der Friedrich Schlegel Graduiertenschule für literaturwissenschaftliche Studien, 2198-9370 ; Band 4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Love--Religious aspects--Miscellanea.

Future life.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 p.)

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, 2015.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Front matter

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110380026

3110380021

9783050065298

305006529X

OCLC:

916306149