“That You Be Brought Near.” Union beyond the Grave in the Arabic Literary Tradition

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Content V
3. Acknowledgements 1
4. Introduction: Love After Death. A Sketch 3
5. Some Ancient Posthumous Lovers 17
6. Posthumous Love as Culture. Outline of a Medieval Moral Pattern 27
7. Posthumous Love in Judaism 55
8. “That You Be Brought Near.” Union beyond the Grave in the Arabic Literary Tradition 71
9. Eros and Eschatology. Phantasms of Postmortal Love in Petrarch 97
10. Love after Death in Garcilaso de la Vega 111
11. Burying Romeo and Juliet: Love after Death in the English Renaissance 147
12. Notes on Contributors 167
13. Table of figures 171
14. Index of names 173