| Librarian's memo |
The praise service of the early church --
The study of the Latin hymns --
Hilary of Poitiers and the earliest Latin hymn --
Pope Damasus and the beginning of rhyme --
Ambrose --
Prudentius, the first Christian poet --
Ennodius, biship of pavia --
Caelius Sedulius and his alphabet hymn --
Venantius Fortunatus, the troubadour --
Gregorius Magnus --
The venerable bede --
Rabanus Maurus, author of "veni, creator" --
Notker of St. Fall, called Balbulus --Walafrid Strabo --
Hermannus Contractus and the "veni sancta spiritus" --
Peter Damiani, cardinal and flagellant --
Hildebert and his hymn --
Bernard of Clairvaux --
Aberlard --
Perter the venerable --
Bernard of Cluny --
Adam of St. Victor --
Thomas of Celano --
Thaomas Aquina and John Bonaventura --
Jacoponus and the "stabat mater" --
Thomas A Kempis --
Francis Xavier, missionary to the Indies --
The hymn-writers and the breviary --
The unknown and the less known hymn writers --
Unknown and less know hymn-writers --
Latin hymnology and Protestantism -- |