Category: History - Medieval/Middle Ages
The first mention of Christian Latin hymns by a known author occurs in the writings of St. Jerome who states that Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers (c. 310-366), a noted author of commentaries and theological works, wrote a _Liber Hymnorum_.[1] This collection has never been recovere...
The metrical pattern used by Otfried, a quatrain of seven-syllable lines with rhymed couplets, is commonly found.[10] Latin influence is at least tentatively acknowledged by sch...
5. CHAPTER FIVEBeginning with the twelfth century the large number of new hymns and sequences produced point to a degree of creative activity that continued through the High Middle Ages. A rec...
3. CHAPTER THREETo explain fully the origin of a great literary movement must always be difficult, for the subtle influences affecting its beginnings elude a scientific analysis of facts. One o...
15. Chapter Seven_Jahrbuch für Liturgiewissenschaft_, edited by O. Casel, O. S. B. Münster i. W., 1921-1934. Vol. xiv (1934) was published in 1938. Invaluable bibliography for every field of med...
6. CHAPTER SIXThe procession as a practice of the Christian Church originates in the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. All four evangelists record the event and all four make mention o...
4. CHAPTER FOURThe problem presented by the origin of the sequence is perhaps the most difficult of all those connected with the evolution of medieval hymnology. So far the available informati...
2. CHAPTER TWOWe owe the preservation of the earliest Latin hymns to monastic practice. When the founders of monasticism in the west, Caesarius and Aurelian who were famous bishops of Arles (...
1. CHAPTER ONEThe first mention of Christian Latin hymns by a known author occurs in the writings of St. Jerome who states that Hilary, Bishop of Poitiers (c. 310-366), a noted author of comm...
7. CHAPTER SEVENFrom the creation of the Latin hymn in the fourth century by the earliest writers to the efforts of poets heralding the Renaissance, Christian hymnody left its imprint upon cont...
11. Chapter Three[3.] _Monumenta Germaniae Historica, Legum sectio_, II, _Capitularia Regum Francorum_, I, _Capitulare primum_, 769; _Capitulare Haristallense_, 779; _Admonitio generalis_, 789;...
14. Chapter Six[10.] For Mamertus, see Greg. Turonen., _Hist. franc._ 2. 34, _MPL_ 71. 230-32. _Councils_. Council of Orleans, 511, canon 17, Mansi VIII, 355; Council of Girona, 517, _Capit._...
12. Chapter Four[2.] See _Introduction_ to _A. H._ 53, by C. Blume and H. M. Bannister. This _Introduction_ has been used as the basis for the discussion of sequence origins. Theories and opini...
13. Chapter Five[16.] S. Singer, “Arabische und europäische Poesie im Mittelalter,” _Zeitschrift f. deutsche Philologie_, LII (April, 1927); K. Burdach, “Über den Ursprung des mittelalterichen...
10. Chapter Two[10.] See _A. H._ (_Analecta Hymnica Medii Aevi_) 51.24-41, notes. The hymns excepted are nos. 23-30; 34-40; J. Julian, _Dictionary of Hymnology_. _Gregory I., St., Pope_; C. Bl...
9. Chapter One[3.] W. N. Myers, _The Hymns of Saint Hilary of Poitiers in the Codex Aretinus_ (Phila., Un. of Penn., 1928) 12, 29, 53, 67. For a discussion of other hymns attributed to Hilary...