TABLE OF CONTENTS
Reading edition
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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