- 1Editor’s Preface
- 2Introduction
- 3Chapter I — The Praise Service of the Early Church
- 4Chapter II — The Study of the Latin Hymns
- 5Chapter III — Hilary of Poitiers and the Earliest Latin Hymns
- 6Chapter IV — Pope Damasus and the Beginning of Rhyme
- 7Chapter V — Ambrose
- 8Chapter VI — Prudentius the First Christian Poet
- 9Chapter VII — Ennodius, Bishop of Pavia
- 10Chapter VIII — Caelius Sedulius and His Alphabet Hymn
- 11Chapter IX — Venantius Fortunatus the Troubadour
- 12Chapter X — Gregorius Magnus [540-604]
- 13Chapter XI — The Venerable Bede
- 14Chapter XII — Rabanus Maurus, Author of the “Veni, Creator”
- 15Chapter XIII — Notker of St. Gall, Called Balbulus
- 16Chapter XIV — Walafrid Strabo
- 17Chapter XV — Hermannus Contractus and the “Veni Sancte Spiritus”
- 18Chapter XVI — Peter Damiani, Cardinal and Flagellant
- 19Chapter XVII — Hildebert and His Hymn
- 20Chapter XVIII — Bernard of Clairvaux
- 21Chapter XIX — Abelard
- 22Chapter XX — Peter the Venerable
- 23Chapter XXI — Bernard of Cluny
- 24Chapter XXII — Adam of St. Victor
- 25Chapter XXIII — Thomas of Celano
- 26Chapter XXIX — The Unknown and the Less Known Hymn-Writers — [Fourt…
- 27Chapter XXX — The Unknown and the Less Known Hymn-Writers — [Tenth…
- 28Bernardi Morlanensis de Vanitate Mundi et Appetitu Aeternae Vitae,…
- 29Appendix II. — The Carmina Burana
- 30Appendix III
- 31Notes to the Electronic Edition
The Latin Hymn-writers and Their Hymns
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