A companion to the Song of Songs in the history of spirituality
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Song of Songs and Its History -- 2 Modern Resistance to the Allegorical Tradition -- 3 Renewed Appreciation for the P...
| Summary: | Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 The Song of Songs and Its History -- 2 Modern Resistance to the Allegorical Tradition -- 3 Renewed Appreciation for the Pre-modern Song of Songs -- 4 Companion to the Song of Songs in Christian Spirituality -- Chapter 1 Mystical Wounds: Eastern Patristic Authors on the Song of Songs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Overview of Key Authors -- 3 Wounds of Love -- 4 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 "A Garden Enclosed, a Fountain Sealed": The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in Early Latin Christianity -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Song of Songs and Ritual Purity in North Africa -- 3 The Song of Songs and Virginity in Italy -- 4 The Early Latin Commentary Tradition -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 3 The Song of Songs in the Early Middle Ages: From Gregory the Great to the Gregorian Reform -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Gregory the Great and the Venerable Bede -- 3 Alcuin and the Carolingians -- 4 The Song of Songs and the Gregorian Reform -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 4 The Cistercian Song: Reception of Bernard of Clairvaux's Exegesis in Later Cistercian Interpretations of the Song of Songs -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Bernard of Clairvaux: Exemplary Abbot and Exegete -- 3 William of St. Thierry: Conversations with a Friend -- 4 Gilbert of Hoyland and John of Ford: Successors -- 5 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 The Song of Songs as a Call to Action: Scholastic Interpretation in the High Middle Ages -- Chapter 6 The Song of Songs in Aelred of Rievaulx's Liturgical Preaching -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Aelred of Rievaulx's Preaching "from" the Song of Songs -- 3 The Advent of the Lord (Sermons 1, 2, 80, 86) -- 4 The Nativity of the Lord (Sermons 3, 48, 81, 91) -- 5 The Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord (Sermons 50, 110). |
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| ISBN: | 9004209506 |