Gold in the Sanctuary - Felix Heinzer
Reassessing Notker of St Gall’s Liber Ymnorum
KORTE INHOUD
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2022Uitgever: Brepols Publishers328 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0888442289ISBN-13: 9780888442284Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Summary The ninth-century monk and poet Notker of St Gall played a seminal role in the history of the sequence, a distinctly medieval poetic genre of liturgical chant, through his Liber Ymnorum. Notker harkens back beyond the classical Latin and Greek tradition, drawing on Hebrew models; his texts combine theological complexity with poetic invention of extraordinary reach. Despite the opposition his innovations provoked in traditionalist circles, Notker's sequences were widely adopted. Promotion by the mon...
