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The Latin Hymn-Writers and Their Hymns

Samuel Willoughby Duffield (1843-1887)

http://www.worldcat.org/title/latin-hymn-writers-and-their-hymns/oclc/1422645

1889

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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 --