Cultural Transfer of Music between Byzantium and the West?
Cultural Transfer of Music between Byzantium and the West?

Author: Nina-Maria Wanek

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2024-04-25

Total Pages: 687

ISBN-13: 9004514880

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This is the first comprehensive study of Greek language ordinary chants (Gloria/Doxa, Credo/Pisteuo, Sanctus/Hagios and Agnus Dei/Amnos tu theu) in Western manuscripts from the 9th to 14th centuries. These chants – known as “Missa Graeca” – have been the subject of academic research for over a hundred years. So far, however, research has been almost exclusively from a Western point of view, without knowledge of the Byzantine sources. For the first time, this book presents an in-depth analysis of these chants and their historical, linguistic and theological-liturgical environment from a Byzantine perspective. The new approach enables the author to refute numerous (and largely contradictory) theories on the origin and development of the Missa Graeca and provides new answers to old questions.

John Morton
John Morton

Author: Stuart Bradley

Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited

Published: 2019-02-15

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1445679647

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One of the most unfairly neglected figures in English history, who served three kings, opposed Richard III and enabled the Tudor dynasty.

Translating Resurrection
Translating Resurrection

Author: Gergely M. Juhász

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2015-01-27

Total Pages: 568

ISBN-13: 900425952X

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Translating Resurrection examines the debate between William Tyndale and George Joye at the beginning of the English Reformation. Occasioned by Joye’s coining ‘life after this’ for Tyndale’s ‘resurrection’ in Joye’s 1534 edition of Tyndale’s New Testament, this fascinating but little-known debate provides unique insights into the reformers’ beliefs concerning post-mortem existence, such as the question of immortality of the soul, soul-sleep, prayers to saints and the doctrine of Purgatory. By providing a thoroughgoing historical and theological context, the book presents an original look at this important episode from the life of the exiled protestant English community. The result will realign scholarship on Tyndale as well as centuries of neglect of Joye’s contributions to early modern bible translation.