Make a Merry Noise! A Ninth-century Teacher Looks at Hymns
Alice L. Harting-Corrêa
Forty years after Charlemagne’s imperial coronation, Walahfrid Strabo, thirty-three-year-old abbot of the monastery Reichenau, wrote a history mid-ninth-century Frankish liturgy: Libellas de exordiis et incrementis quarundam in observationibus ecclesiasticis rerum — A Little Book about Origins and Development Certain Aspects Liturgy . It was first account liturgical development, topics ranged widely over thirty-two chapters, from bells to baptism, language litany. Most subjects were state change or expansion. Where there controversy—for example, should priest celebrate Eucharist more than once day—the practice would help underline essential elements demonstrate Christian constants as opposed cultural diversity. such increasing number hymns available for Hours, that appropriate timely.
Studies in Church History