Gold in the sanctuary
Subtitle: reassessing Notker of St Gall's Liber ymnorum
By: Felix Heinzer
Contributors: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Series: Studies and texts -- 228; Studies and texts (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies) -- 228.
Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies
Published: 2022
Place of publication: Toronto, Ontario
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780888442284
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern); History and criticism; Sequences (Liturgy); Liturgy; History; Poésie chrétienne latine médiévale et moderne; Histoire et critique; Séquences (Liturgie); Liturgics; Catholic Church
Description: "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 monastery of St Gall and posthumous idealization of the poet ensured the Liber Ymnorum would become a prototypical model for a wide array of imitations in the genre until the late sixteenth century."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-276) and indexes.

Issued also in electronic format.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ninth-Century Backgrounds; title: The Quest for Legitimization; title: Notker the Psalmist; title: The Stammering Poet; title: Glory at Home: Re-Coding Notker at St Gall; title: Radiating Abroad: Promotion to Liturgical Standard; title: The "Hypo-Textual" Notker; title: In the Guise of an Epilogue: Gold in the Sanctuary?