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Bernhard Jussen & Ramie Targoff
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Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

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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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Language English ● Format PDF ● Pages 183 ● ISBN 9783050065298 ● Editor Bernhard Jussen & Ramie Targoff ● Publisher De Gruyter ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 6291743 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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