In addition to the featured hardcover and ebook releases, the Penn Press fall 2013 list includes many first-time paperbacks, among them: Lucretia Mott's Heresy; An Infinity of Nations; Why Don't American Cities Burn?; From Human Trafficking to Human Rights; "Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems; and Becoming the People of the Talmud.

Prophetic Song
The Psalms as Moral Discourse in Late Medieval England

Michael P. Kuczynski

336 pages | 4 illus.
Cloth 1995 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3271-4 | $49.95s | £32.50 | Add to cart
A volume in the Middle Ages Series
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A study of the Psalter's influence on the language of prescription and proscription, injunction, command, censure, reproof, and other ethical instruction in late medieval England, as well as exegesis and meditation that clearly had a homiletic or polemic bias. Among the themes is the distinction between the private and public use the Psalms were put to, and the deliberate blurring of that distinction to illustrate the unity between individual salvation and the reform of society.

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