Love after Death

Love after Death Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe - WeltLiteraturen / World Literatures

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9783050102740
Publisher: De Gruyter
Imprint: De Gruyter
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Language: English
Number of pages: 183
Weight: -1g
Height: 240mm
Width: 170mm