St. Romanos the Melodist
Hymns of Repentance - New York, USA St. Vladimir's Seminary Press 2020 - 157 18 - Popular Patristics Series 61 .
"This is a new translation of the Lenten kontakia of Saint Romanos the Melodist of Constantinople (AD c. 490-c. 556). He was a master poet and hymnographer, who synthesized Greco-Roman rhetoric and poetry and Greek (especially Cappadocian) patristic theology and themes with Syriac poetic and theological sensibilities. This series of kontakia was sung in Great Lent in Constantinople, and follows the liturgical commemorations of those weeks (largely unchanged to the present day)"--
9780881416572
15555755
2020
2020930867
English
History
Patrology
Hymns of Repentance - New York, USA St. Vladimir's Seminary Press 2020 - 157 18 - Popular Patristics Series 61 .
"This is a new translation of the Lenten kontakia of Saint Romanos the Melodist of Constantinople (AD c. 490-c. 556). He was a master poet and hymnographer, who synthesized Greco-Roman rhetoric and poetry and Greek (especially Cappadocian) patristic theology and themes with Syriac poetic and theological sensibilities. This series of kontakia was sung in Great Lent in Constantinople, and follows the liturgical commemorations of those weeks (largely unchanged to the present day)"--
9780881416572
15555755
2020
2020930867
English
History
Patrology