Poetry and Parental Bereavement in Early Modern Lutheran Germany.

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- Conventions -- Introduction -- 1. Lutheran consolation for bereaved parents -- A brief history of Lutheran consolation -- Parental love and loss -- The medical model of consolation -- Mourning conventions and consolation arguments -- The duty of consolation -- 2. The purposes of poetry -- Poetry and society -- 3. Models and metaphors for Lutheran funeral poetry -- 4. Death and didacticism -- 5. Brides of Christ and heavenly soldiers: imagery in funeral verse -- Seasonal imagery and the metaphor 'children are plants' -- Representations of death -- Life as a journey -- Name-, age-, and gender-specific images -- 6. Paul Fleming and Margarethe Susanna von Kuntsch -- Paul Fleming -- Margarethe Susanna von Kuntsch -- Conclusion -- Biographies of poets and authors -- Funeral booklets and occasional poems for the children cited -- Bibliography -- Reference works -- Classical and patristic texts -- Primary sources -- Secondary literature -- Index of Bible verses -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.

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.

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