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2. 1. Expositiones sequentiarum : Medieval Sequence Commentaries and Prologues. Editions with Introductions

   Author : Erika Kihlman; Gunilla Iversen; Susan Boynton; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Medieval Latin; sequence commentaries; prologue; Alan of Lille; Pseudo-Dionysius; John Scottus Eriugena; Gregory the Great; the ‘Aristotelian tradition’; angels; angelical hierarchy; glosses; etymology; Ad celebres rex; Latin language; Latin;

   Abstract : The sequence commentary emerged as a new branch of medieval commentary literature in the twelfth century. The sequence itself, sung in the Roman Mass, was a hugely influential genre—several thousands of sequence texts are known today—but the fact that the Middle Ages also produced commentaries on this liturgical poetry has been hitherto practically unknown and very few commentary texts have been edited. READ MORE