TABLE OF CONTENTS
Samuel Willoughby Duffield
Editor’s Preface
iii
Introduction
viii
I
The Praise Service of the Early Church
xi
II
The Study of the Latin Hymns
12
III
Hilary of Poitiers and the Earliest Latin Hymns
19
IV
Pope Damasus and the Beginning of Rhyme
35
V
Ambrose
47
VI
Prudentius, the First Christian Poet
63
VII
Ennodius, Bishop of Pavia
73
VIII
Caelius Sedulius and his Alphabet Hymn
83
IX
Venantius Fortunatus the Troubadour
88
X
Gregorius Magnus [540-604]
97
XI
The Venerable Bede
109
XII
Rabanus Maurus, Author of the “Veni, Creator”
114
XIII
Notker of St. Gall, Called Balbulus
132
XIV
Walafrid Strabo
143
XV
Hermannus Contractus and the “Veni Sancte Spiritus”
149
XVI
Peter Damiani, Cardinal and Flagellant
169
XVII
Hildebert and his Hymn
179
XVIII
Bernard of Clairvaux
186
XIX
Abelard
194
XX
Peter the Venerable
214
XXI
Bernard of Cluny
222
XXII
Adam of St. Victor
227
XXIII
Thomas of Celano
240
XXIV
Thomas Aquinas and John Bonaventura
255
XXV
Jacoponus and the “Stabat Mater”
272
XXVI
Thomas À Kempis
283
XXVII
Francis Xavier, Missionary to the Indies (1506-52)
298
XXVIII
The Hymn-Writers of the Breviary
316
XXIX
The Unknown and the Less Known Hymn-Writers [Fourth to Tenth Century]
347
XXX
The Unknown and the Less Known Hymn-Writers [Tenth to Sixteenth Century]
370
XXXI
Latin Hymnology and Protestantism
401
XXXII
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES.
416
XXXIII
Index to Translated Hymns
446
Appendix
485
Appendix I
BERNARDI MORLANENSIS DE VANITATE MUNDI ET APPETITU AETERNAE VITAE, LIBELLUS AUREOLUS.
485
Appendix II
The Carmina Burana
495
Appendix III
The Four Crazed Brothers
497
General Index
499
Index to Latin Hymns Quoted or Mentioned
507
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