Psalms in the Early Modern World (Innbundet (stive permer))

Linda Phyllis Austen is Associate Professor of Musicology at Northwestern University, Kari Boyd McBride is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson and David L. Orvis is Assistant Professor of English at Appalachian State University, USA.

"Psalms in the Early Modern World" is the first book to explore the use, interpretation, development, translation, and influence of the "Psalms" in the Atlantic world, 1400-1800. In the age of Reformation, when religious concerns drove political, social, cultural, economic, and scientific discourse, the Bible was the supreme document of the times, and the "Psalms" were the best known and arguably most important book in the Bible. "The Psalms" played a central role in arbitrating the salient debates of the day, including but scarcely limited to the nature of power and the legitimacy of rule; the proper role and purpose of nations; the justification for holy war and the godliness of peace; and, the relationship of individual and community to God. Contributors to the collection follow these debates around the Atlantic world, to pre- and post-Hispanic translators in Latin America, colonists in New England, mystics in Spain, the French court during the religious wars, and both Protestants and Catholics in England."Psalms in the Early Modern World" showcases essays by scholars from literature, history, music, and religious studies, all of whom have expertise in the use and influence of "Psalms" in the early modern world. The collection reaches beyond national and confessional boundaries and to look at the ways in which "Psalms" touched nearly every person living in early modern Europe and any place in the world that Europeans took their cultural practices.

Prefatory note, Linda Phyllis Austem, Kari Boyd McBride and David L. Orvis; Introduction; Part 1 Communities of Worship: Listening to the Psalms among the Huguenots: Simon Goulart as music editor, Richard Freedman; William Byrd's English psalms, Roger Bray; 'For musick is the handmaid of the Lord': women, Psalms, and domestic music-making in early modern England, Linda Phyllis Austern; 'How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?' (Ps. 137:4): a transatlantic study of the Bay Psalm book, Joanne van der Woude.; Part 2 Contested Grounds of Authority: Miles Coverdale and the claims of paraphrase, Jamie H. Ferguson; Rightful penitence and the publication of Wyatt's Certayne Psalmea, Clare Costley King'oo; Psalm 44 (45) and nuptial spirituality in Juan de Avila's Audi, filia, James F. Melvin; Spenser's equations of his queen with Christ: royal supremacy and royal Psalms, Carol V. Kaske.; Part 3 Psalmic Voice(s): Re-revealing the Psalms: the Countess of Pembroke and her early modern readers, Margaret Hannay; Sibling harps: the Sidneys and the Cherons translate the Psalms, Anne Lake Prescott; David's Iyre, kabbalah, and the power of music, Don Harran.; Part 4 Generic Innovation: Reading her psalter: the Virgin Mary in the n-town play, Penny Granger; The pre-Hispanic poetics of Sahagun's Psalmodia christiana, John F. Schwaller; Bibliography; Index.