The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages

Ann W. Astell

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English

Cornell University Press
01 June 1995

Early music (up to c 1000 CE); Social & cultural history; Bible readings, selections & meditations

The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages is a wide-ranging and insightful book that is carefully researched and gracefully written. It is of importance alike to those interested in mysticism, Middle English, the twelfth century, the fourteenth century, and feminist approaches to literature. - Studia Mystica""This deceptively slender volume is valuable in a number of ways. Astell further substantiates even as she extends and deepens the insights of historical scholars such as Beryl Smalley by distinguishing more precisely the various forms taken by the twelfth-century reemphasis on the letter of the Biblical text and by specifying the psychohistorical circumstances that conditioned that response. She contributes original and insightful readings of important texts, including St. Bernard's Sermones, the mystical writings of Hugh of St. Victor and Richard Rolle, the Middle English religious lyrics, and Pearl. And her bold claim that the 'powerful fusion of letter and allegory in readers' experience of the Song from the twelfth through the fourteenth centuries provided the key definitional model for Christian poetics and rhetoric during that time' encourages a new look at other works .

Astell's book is both stimulating and convincing. "" - Journal of English and Germanic Philology""[Astell] proves herself to be a very good close reader. [Her] sensitive attention to shifts of gender and their rhetorical motivation yields subtle and compelling results."" - Speculum

By: Ann W. Astell
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 140mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780801482670
ISBN 10: 0801482674
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 01 June 1995
Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ann W. Astell is Professor of English at Purdue University. She is the author of many books, including Eating Beauty: The Eucharist and the Spiritual Arts of the Middle Ages, The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages, Chaucer and the Universe of Learning, and Political Allegory in Late Medieval England, all available from Cornell.