TABLE OF CONTENTS
[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