The Latin hymn-writers and their hymns / by the late Samuel Willoughby Duffield ; edited and completed by R.E. Thompson.

Author
Duffield, Samuel Willoughby, 1843-1887 [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • New York : Funk & Wagnalls, [1889]
  • ©1889
Description
1 volume (xi, 511 pages) ; 23 cm

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    Notes
    • Index to translated hymns.
    • Without music.
    Bibliographic references
    Bibliography: p. [416]-445.
    Contents
    • The praise service of the early church
    • The study of the Latin hymns
    • Hilary of Poitiers and the earliest Latin hymn
    • Pope Damasus and the beginning of rhyme
    • Ambrose
    • Prudentius, the first Christian poet
    • Ennodius, biship of pavia
    • Caelius Sedulius and his alphabet hymn
    • Venantius Fortunatus, the troubadour
    • Gregorius Magnus
    • The venerable bede
    • Rabanus Maurus, author of "veni, creator"
    • Notker of St. Fall, called Balbulus --Walafrid Strabo
    • Hermannus Contractus and the "veni sancta spiritus"
    • Peter Damiani, cardinal and flagellant
    • Hildebert and his hymn
    • Bernard of Clairvaux
    • Aberlard
    • Perter the venerable
    • Bernard of Cluny
    • Adam of St. Victor
    • Thomas of Celano
    • Thaomas Aquina and John Bonaventura
    • Jacoponus and the "stabat mater"
    • Thomas A Kempis
    • Francis Xavier, missionary to the Indies
    • The hymn-writers and the breviary
    • The unknown and the less known hymn writers
    • Unknown and less know hymn-writers
    • Latin hymnology and Protestantism
    • Bibliographical notes
    • Index to translated hymns.
    Other title(s)
    Latin hymns
    OCLC
    1422645
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