Psalms in the early modern world

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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 musicke 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?" : 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 Psalmes / 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 : Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke, and her early modern readers / Margaret P. Hannay

Sibling harps : the Sidneys and the Chérons translate the Psalms / Anne Lake Prescott

David's lyre, kabbalah, and the power of music / Don Harrán

Part 4. Generic innovation. Reading her psalter : the Virgin Mary in the N-town play / Penny Granger

The pre-Hispanic poetics of Sahagún's Psalmodia christiana / John F. Schwaller