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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Bernhard Jussen, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Germany; Ramie Targoff, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA.
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 183 ● ISBN 9783110380026 ● File size 1.6 MB ● Editor Bernhard Jussen & Ramie Targoff ● Publisher De Gruyter ● City Basel/Berlin/Boston ● Published 2014 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6364292 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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