Research Catalog

Title

One hundred Latin hymns : Ambrose to Aquinas / edited and translated by Peter G. Walsh with Christopher Husch.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Husch, Christopher.
• Walsh, P. G. (Patrick Gerard)
• Walsh, Peter G.

Description

xxv, 517 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

"How I wept at your hymns and songs, keenly moved by the sweet-sounding voices of your church!" wrote the recently converted Augustine in his Confessions. Christians from the earliest period consecrated the hours of the day and the sacred calendar, liturgical seasons and festivals of saints. This volume collects one hundred of the most important and beloved Late Antique and Medieval Latin hymns from Western Europe. These religious voices span a geographical range that stretches from Ireland through France to Spain and Italy. They meditate on the ineffable, from Passion to Paradise, in love and trembling and praise. The authors represented here range from Ambrose in the late fourth century ce down to Bonaventure in the thirteenth. The texts cover a broad gamut in their poetic forms and meters. Although often the music has not survived, most of them would have been sung. Some of them have continued to inspire composers, such as the great thirteenth-century hymns, the Stabat mater and Dies irae.

Series Statement

Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 18

Uniform Title

Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 18.

Subject

• Hymns, Latin (Medieval and modern)
• Hymns, Latin > Translations into English
• Hymns, Latin

Genre/Form

• Hymns, Latin – Translations into English.
• Hymns, Latin.
• Translations
• Vertalingen (vorm)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 503-506) and indexes.

Language (note)

• English and Latin text on facing pages.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Ambrose -- Nicetas of Remesiana -- Prudentius -- Sedulius -- Venantius Fortunatus -- The Old Hymnal -- The New Hymnal -- Columba of Iona -- The Venerable Bede -- Anonymous -- Theodulf of Orléans -- Hrabanus Maurus -- Wipo -- Aimar of Le Puy -- Peter Abelard -- Adam of Saint Victor -- Philip the Chancellor -- Bonaventure -- Stephen Langton -- Thomas of Celano -- Saint Thomas Aquinas -- Anonymous.

ISBN

9780674057739 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2012015958

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library