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Love After Death: 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.

Language: English

Pages: 183

Format: ebook

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Release: December 11, 2014

ISBN: 305006529X

ISBN 13: 9783050065298

Love After Death: Concepts of Posthumous Love in Medieval and Early Modern Europe

4/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 183

Format: ebook

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Release: December 11, 2014

ISBN: 305006529X

ISBN 13: 9783050065298

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