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Williram von Ebersberg: Expositio in Cantica Canticorum und das 'Commentarium in Cantica Canticorum' Haimos von Auxerre, ed. with a German translation by Henrike Lähnemann and Michael Rupp (Berlin and New York: de Gruyter, 2004). xxxv + 290 pp. ISBN 3-11-017724-2. euro128.00. Williram's Song of Songs compendium consists of the Vulgate text combined with a rendering into Latin leonine hexameters and an extensive paraphrase and commentary in a mixture of late Old High German and Latin. This is the first edition which even begins to do justice to the work as a major piece of writing reflecting the intellectual and religious culture of the eleventh-century monasteries, and is thus very welcome. Like that of R. Schützeichel and B. Meineke, published only three years earlier by Vandenhoeck &...