The festival hymns of Peter Abelard : a translation and commentary of the "Hymnarius Paraclitensis Libellus II"
This thesis examines the hymns contained in Peter Abelard's 'Hymnarius Paraclitensis Libellus II' and those for the Sacred Triduum. Together these hymns describe and celebrate the major events of the history of redemption from Nativity to Pentecost, finishing with Church Dedication. The forty-seven hymns fall into groups, each of which is assigned to one of the Feasts. In this examination, each group is preceded by a Foreword which discusses the techniques Abelard employs to make a coherent whole out of the individual hymns. There follows the text, translation and commentaries. The text is based on that of Chrysogonus Waddell (Hymn Collections from the Paraclete Cistercian Liturgy Series 9, Gethsemani Abbey 1987). Although a translation of the hymns exists (Sister Jane Patricia The Hymns of Peter Abelard in English Verse University Press of America 1986), it suffers from the poetic licence involved in translating the poetry of one language into that of another. I give a more literal and more accurate translation. The hymns have been discussed in varying degrees of depth by different commentators, the most notable being Guido Dreves (Petri Abaelardi Peripatetici Palatini Hymnarius Paraclitensis Paris 1891),
Woods, Patricia Hilary
The festival hymns of Peter Abelard : a translation and commentary of the "Hymnarius Paraclitensis Libellus II". This thesis examines the hymns contained in Peter Abelard's 'Hymnarius Paraclitensis Libellus II' and those for the Sacred Triduum. Together these hymns describe and celebrate the major events of the history of redemption from Nativity to Pentecost, finishing with Church Dedication. The forty-seven hymns fall into groups, each of which is assigned to one of the Feasts. In this examination, each group is preceded by a Foreword which discusses the techniques Abelard employs to make a coherent whole out of the individual hymns. There follows the text, translation and commentaries. The text is based on that of Chrysogonus Waddell (Hymn Collections from the Paraclete Cistercian Liturgy Series 9, Gethsemani Abbey 1987). Although a translation of the hymns exists (Sister Jane Patricia The Hymns of Peter Abelard in English Verse University Press of America 1986), it suffers from the poetic licence involved in translating the poetry of one language into that of another. I give a more literal and more accurate translation. The hymns have been discussed in varying degrees of depth by different commentators, the most notable being Guido Dreves (Petri Abaelardi Peripatetici Palatini Hymnarius Paraclitensis Paris 1891),
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