Love after Death

Published by De Gruyter (A) 2015

Love after Death

Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

Edited by: Bernhard Jussen and Ramie Targoff

Volume 4 in the series WeltLiteraturen / World Literatures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783050065298

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About this book

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.

Author information

Bernhard Jussen, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany; Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Content Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Introduction: Love After Death. A Sketch Bernhard Jussen and Ramie Targoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Some Ancient Posthumous Lovers Glenn W. Most Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	17
Posthumous Love as Culture. Outline of a Medieval Moral Pattern Bernhard Jussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	27
Posthumous Love in Judaism David Nirenberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
“That You Be Brought Near.” Union beyond the Grave in the Arabic Literary Tradition Beatrice Gruendler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
Eros and Eschatology. Phantasms of Postmortal Love in Petrarch Gerhard Regn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	97
Love after Death in Garcilaso de la Vega Joachim Küpper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Burying Romeo and Juliet: Love after Death in the English Renaissance Ramie Targoff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Notes on Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Table of figures Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter (A)
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 177
Keywords: Love; afterlife; medieval Europe; early modern Europe

eBook

Published: December 11, 2014
ISBN: 9783050065298

Hardcover

Published: November 17, 2014
ISBN: 9783050062723