id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt mc87pn91q9m Hannah W. Matis Daughters of Jerusalem: Early Medieval Commentary on the Song of Songs and the Carolingian Reform 2013 .txt text/plain 432 12 38 And finally, I examine how the Song of Songs formed one very important aspect of of an ongoing conversation between church and crown, providing Carolingian monks and clergy with a plethora of models to advise, to inspire, and occasionally to rebuke their sovereigns. In using the language of the Song of Songs to describe themselves and to form a common identity within the church, Carolingian elites also used that language to label and characterize the behavior of those they perceived to be tearing the church apart from within. cache/mc87pn91q9m.txt txt/mc87pn91q9m.txt