Singen fur die Seligkeit: Studien zu einer Liedersammlung der Devotio Moderna: Zwolle, Historisch Centrum Overijssel, Coll. Emmanuelshuizen, Cat. Vi. Mit ... Series in Church History)

This volume concerns a music manuscript written at the end of the fifteenth century and associated with the Brethren of the Common Life at Zwolle. The manuscript is bound together with an incunable containing one of the most influential theological treatises of the Devotio moderna: the De spiritualibus ascensionibus of Gerard Zerbolt of Zutphen. The music manuscript contains 25 one-part hymns and two text excerpts on the Four Last Things (death, judgement, heaven, and hell), the core theme of the Brethren's penitential meditation. The book deals with the codicological construction of the book, the transmission, and the function of the songs in their context of the practice of pentitential meditation. The multidisciplinary study makes an important contribution to research on hymns in the late Middle Ages as well as on the music and spirituality of the Devotio moderna. Death, judgement, heaven, and hell are the themes of a late medieval hymn manuscript associated with the Brethren of the Common Life at Zwolle. These same themes constitute the basis of penitential meditation in these circles. This book offers a new view on the spirituality of the Modern Devotion and its close connection with music Von Ulrike Hascher-burger. Includes Facsimile And Modern Transcriptions Of The Hymns In The Zwolle Emm Vi. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [303]-313) And Indexes. In German; Summaries In German And English.