Song of Songs in European Poetry (12th-17th Centuries): Translations, Appropriations, Rewritings

Acknowledgements
Introduction. Camilla Caporicci
Chapter 1. ‘The Song of Songs, gaze upon her’: Antique Hebrew Liturgical Poetry from the Medieval Mainz Rite. Leor Jacobi
Chapter 2. Versifying the Cantica canticorum in the Context of Peter Riga’s Aurora. Greti Dinkova-Bruun
Chapter 3. ‘Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men’: Revisiting the Song of Songs with Tristan and Ysolt. Brindusa Grigoriu
Chapter 4. The Song of Songs’ Lyricism in Late Medieval England. Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead
Chapter 5. The Good Sorrow: The Song of Songs in Dante’s Comedy and Contemporary Popular Piety. Lino Pertile
Chapter 6. The Song of Songs in Sixteenth-Century Italian Lyric Poetry. Matteo Navone
Chapter 7. Laetitia et solatio: Singing the Canticles and Female Spirituality in the Early Seventeenth Century. Marina Toffetti
Chapter 8. Motets on the Song of Songs in the Collection Symbolae diversorum musicorum (Venice, 1621) Edited by Lorenzo Calvi. Gabriele Taschetti
Chapter 9. A Corpus-based Analysis of the Song of Songs’ Early Modern Translations (1535‒1611). Fabio Ciambella
Chapter 10. William Baldwin’s Canticles or Balades of Solomon and the Beginnings of English Petrarchism. Rachel Stenner
Chapter 11. A Reading of Joseph Hall’s Paraphrase of the Song of Songs (1609). Tibor Fabiny
Chapter 12. From the ‘broken Altar’ to ‘The Banquet’ of Love: The Song of Songs in George Herbert’s The Temple (1633). Carmen Gallo
Chapter 13. The Allure of Canonical Fleshliness: The Song of Songs as Hermeneutic intermédiaire for Ranter Libertarianism and Counter-Ethics. Simone Turco
Chapter 14. Women Prophets, Dissent, and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England. Adrian Streete
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