Author: Marion M. van Assendelft
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 292

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Author: Marion M. van Assendelft
Publisher:
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Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: S. E. Hijmans
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004521585
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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Hijmans demonstrates that a sophisticated analysis of images of Sol sheds an entirely new light on the role of the sun in Roman religion. This book includes a discussion of relevant theory and a number of case studies. This is part II of a two-part set.

Author: Brian Dunkle
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198788223
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Enchantment and Creed in the Hymns of Ambrose of Milan offers the first critical overview of the hymns of Ambrose of Milan in the context of fourth-century doctrinal song and Ambrose's own catechetical preaching. Brian P. Dunkle, SJ, argues that these settings inform the interpretation of Ambrose's hymnodic project. The hymns employ sophisticated poetic techniques to foster a pro-Nicene sensitivity in the bishop's embattled congregation. After a summary presentation of early Christian hymnody, with special attention to Ambrose's Latin predecessors, Dunkle describes the mystagogical function of fourth-century songs. He examines Ambrose's sermons, especially his catechetical and mystagogical works, for preached parallels to this hymnodic effort. Close reading of Ambrose's hymnodic corpus constitutes the bulk of the study. Dunkle corroborates his findings through a treatment of early Ambrosian imitations, especially the poetry of Prudentius. These early readers amplify the hymnodic features that Dunkle identifies as "enchanting," that is, enlightening the "eyes of faith."

Author: Michael Roberts
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472104499
Category : Christian martyrs in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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A beautifully detailed literary study of Prudentius's eulogies of the Christian martyrs

Author: Samuel Willoughby Duffield
Publisher:
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Category : Hymn writers
Languages : en
Pages : 538

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Author: J. den Boeft
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004312897
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 332

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This collection of essays deals with the rise and development of early Christian poetry, discussing its techniques and its theoretical foundation. The individual papers concern specimina of Hebrew, Syriac, Greek and Latin poetry and study the various and partly conflicting traditions from which it originated. The biblical examples, e.g. of the Psalms, held great authority, but on the other hand it was impossible to break away from the models of classical Greco-Roman poetry, although these were deemed dangerous because of the pagan content and excessive cult of literary art. The book shows how the problems involved were solved in different ways, which justified the use of pagan literary accomplishments for singing the praises of the Lord.

Author: Gerard O'Daly
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199263957
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 423

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O'Daly looks at Prudentius' lyric poems, the Cathemerinon, Poems for the Day, and how they achieve a remarkable creative tension between the two worlds that determined Prudentius' culture: the beliefs and practices, sacred books, and doctrines of Christianity and the traditions, poetry, and ideas of the Greeks and Romans.

Author: Prudentius
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Category : Christian literature, Early
Languages : en
Pages : 354

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Author: James Ker
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421445182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 477

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Traces how the day has served as a key organizing concept in Roman culture—and beyond. How did ancient Romans keep track of time? What constituted a day in ancient Rome was not the same twenty-four hours we know today. In The Ordered Day, James Ker traces how the day served as a key organizing concept, both in antiquity and in modern receptions of ancient Rome. Romans used the story of how the day emerged as a unit of sociocultural time to give order to their own civic and imperial history. Ancient literary descriptions of people's daily routines articulated distinctive forms of life within the social order. And in the imperial period and beyond, outsiders—such as early Christians in their monastic rules and modern antiquarians in books on daily life—ordered their knowledge of Roman life through reworking the day as a heuristic framework. Scholarly interest in Roman time has recently moved from the larger unit of the year and calendar to smaller units of time, especially in the study of sundials and other timekeeping technologies of the ancient Mediterranean. Through extensive analysis of ancient literary texts and material culture as well as modern daily life handbooks, Ker demonstrates the privileged role that "small time" played, and continues to play, in Roman literary and cultural history. Ker argues that the ordering of the day provided the basis for the organizing of history, society, and modern knowledge about ancient Rome. For readers curious about daily life in ancient Rome as well as for students and scholars of Roman history and Latin literature, The Ordered Day provides an accessible and fascinating account of the makings of the Roman day and its relationship to modern time structures.