THE
LATIN HYMN-WRITERS
AND
THEIR HYMNS.
BY THE LATE
SAMUEL WILLOUGHBY DUFFIELD,
Author of “The Heavenly Land,” “Warp and Woof,” “The Burial of the Dead,” and “English Hymns: Their Authors and History.”
EDITED AND COMPLETED BY
PROF. R. E. THOMPSON, D.D.,
Of the University of Pennsylvania.
“Et semper in hunc studiorum quare munitissimum portum ex hujus temporis tempestatibus lubenter confugissem.”—H. A. Daniel.
“In diesem Sinne betrachte ich diese, uns von der Vorzeit überlieferten ehrwürdigen und erhabenen Kirchlichen Dichtungen als ein geistiges Gemeingut.”—G. A. Konigsfeld.
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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