Lutheran consolation for bereaved parents -- Purposes of poetry -- Models and metaphors for Lutheran funeral poetry -- Death and didacticism -- Brides of Christ and heavenly soldiers: imagery in funeral verse -- Paul Fleming and Margarethe Susanna von Kuntsch
Summary
This study of Lutheran funeral booklets - verse written to console bereaved parents - adds to our understanding of the genre, which has not been fully explored as literature or for what it reveals about the depiction of children or parent-child relationships in early modern Europe
Notes
Based on the author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2002
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-306) and index