Title: Love after death : concepts of posthumous love in medieval and early modern Europe /
Authors: Jussen, Bernhard,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Love Religious aspects Miscellanea.; Future life; Future life; Love Religious aspects; Liebe; Verwitwung.; Tod; Literatur
Contents: Introduction : love after death. A sketch / Bernhard Jussen and Ramie Targoff -- Some ancient posthumus lovers / Glenn W. Most -- Posthumous love as culture. Outline of a medieval moral pattern / Bernhard Jussen -- Posthumous love in Judaism / David Nirenberg -- "That you be brought near." Union beyond the grave in the Arabic literary tradition / Beatrice Gruendler -- Eros and eschatology. Phantasms of postmortal love in petrarch / Gerhard Regn -- Love after death in Garcilaso de la Vega / Joachim Küpper -- Burying Romeo and Juliet. Love after death in the English Renaissance / Ramie Targoff.