Frauenlob's Song of Songs Phoebe Smith This was a prescient observation

This was a prescient observation

Building on philosophers from Plato through Aquinas to John Finnis

her philandering husband and the gossipmongers of her hometown

In this engaging book

Frauenlob's Song of Songs Phoebe Smith This was a prescient observationFrauenlob was the stage name of Heinrich von Meissen (c. 12601318), a medieval German poet minstrel. A famous and controversial figure in his day, Frauenlob (meaning praise of ladies) exercised a strong influence on German literature into the eighteenth century. This book introduces the poet to English speaking readers with a fresh poetic translation of his masterpiece, the Marienleicha virtuosic poem of more than 500 lines in praise of the Virgin