CONTENTS
CONTENTS
FOREWORD by R. W. Southern
PREFACE
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION
1. BACKGROUND TO THE PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS
1. The Liturgy
The Divine Office
The Kalendar and the Mass
2. The ‘Preces Privatae’
3. ‘Meditari aut legere’
4. John of Fécamp
2. THE PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS
1. The Anselmian Pattern of Prayer
‘In cubiculum meum’
‘Excita Mentem’
‘Compunctio Cordis’
‘In Caelis’
2. The Content of the Prayers
3. The Prayers
4. Meditations 1 and 2
5. Meditation on Human Redemption and Proslogion
6. Conclusion
Notes
THE PRAYERS AND MEDITATIONS
Preface
Letters to the Countess Mathilda
1. Prayer to God
2. Prayer to Christ
3. Prayer before Receiving the Body and Blood of Christ
4. Prayer to the Holy Cross
A Letter to Gundolf
5. Prayer to St Mary (1)
6. Prayer to St Mary (2)
7. Prayer to St Mary (3)
8. Prayer to St John the Baptist
9. Prayer to St Peter
10. Prayer to St Paul
11. Prayer to St John the Evangelist (1)
12. Prayer to St John the Evangelist (2)
A Letter to Adelaide
13. Prayer to St Stephen
A Letter to Prior Baldric
14. Prayer to St Nicholas
15. Prayer to St Benedict
16. Prayer to St Mary Magdalene
17. Prayer by a Bishop or Abbot to the Patron Saint of his Church
18. Prayer for Friends
19. Prayer for Enemies
A Letter from Durandus
Meditation 1
Meditation 2
Meditation on Human Redemption
Proslogion
Notes
APPENDIX – THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE PRAYERS
1. The Circulation and Influence of the Prayers
2. Early Additions to the Collection
Ralph of Battle
Elmer of Canterbury
Notes to the Appendix
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