Dead Lovers: Erotic Bonds and the Study of Premodern Europe

Dead Lovers explores the complex attachments to the figure of the dead lover in Western literature, art, and other forms of cultural expression from classical antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the early modern period. By reflecting on the study of dead lovers, the collection traces the development of themes and claims about our own investment in a
dead
but eroticized past that we seek to recover.