In The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages, Hannah W. Matis examines how the Song of Songs, the collection of Hebrew love poetry, was understood in the Latin
The Song of Songs is a fascinating text. Read as an allegory of God’s love for Israel, the Church, or individual believers, it became one of the most influent
A survey of the history of one of the most important biblical texts in the history of Christian spirituality while exploring original pathways for research.
Included among the sacred books of Judaism and Christianity alike, the Song of Songs does not mention God at all; on the surface it is a lyrical exchange betwee
This is the first book to investigate how people in the early middle ages used the past: to legitimate the present, to understand current events, and as a sourc