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Politics, religion, and the song of songs in seventeenth-century England

This book looks at the changes in the way The Song of Songs was read across the seventeenth century: a period of particularly dramatic developments in English history. The Song of Songs was used to indicate specific political and theological concepts for readers from certain audiences throughout seventeenth-century England. The research draws on a large number of manuscript and printed sources from libraries across the world, including The National Library of Scotland and the Osborn Collection in the Beineke Library (Yale).