medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
No problem,
4 speakers was probably reaching a bit anyway. You are completely off the hook!
Are you in your office? Have something I'd like to run by you.
Bob
At 10:51 AM 11/30/2005, you wrote:
>medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
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>Our fourth stanza:
>
>Secundo ut cum fulserit,
>Mundumque horror cinxerit,
>non pro reatu puniat,
>Sed nos pius tunc protegat.
>
>Our translation:
>
>So, when next he comes with glory,
>Wrapping all the earth in fear,
>May he then as our defender
>On the clouds of heaven appear.
>
>A more literal translation: ‘So that, when he
>shall shine a second time, and horror girds the
>world, he may not punish us for our sins, but
>grant us his kindly protection.’ The description
>of his appearance as ‘shining’ again – fulgeo,
>‘flash, glitter, shine’ – suggests once again
>the images of morning star and rising sun which we have noted already.
>
>The final stanza is a pretty standard doxology:
>
>Laus, honor, virtus, gloria
>Deo Patri, et Filio,
>Sancto simul Paraclito,
>In saeculorum saecula. Amen.
>
>Rendered perfectly competently by Caswall:
>
>Honour, glory, virtue, merit,
>To the Father and the Son,
>With the co-eternal Spirit,
>While unending ages run. Amen.
>
>Stan Metheny pointed out a difference in my text
>from that of the Breviarium Romanum. In fact I
>took my text from the Monastic Breviary, and
>there are numerous differences from that of the
>Roman Breviary; so many as to make it almost a
>different hymn. I would take the Monastic
>version to be the more original and authentic;
>certainly it is poetically superior. For
>example, the first line in the Roman Breviary is
>
>En clara vox redarguit
>
>as opposed to
>
>Vox clara ecce intonat.
>
>Now the BR version seems to me to be trying to
>tidy up the scansion of the Monastic version. In
>classical Latin the final vowels of ‘clara’ and
>‘ecce’ would be elided, leaving the line two
>syllables short: Vox clar’ ecc’ intonat. BR
>replaces ‘ecce’ with ‘en’ and substitutes
>‘redarguit’ – ‘answers back, contradicts’ for
>‘intonat.’ But ‘intonat’ is really ‘thunders’
>and begins a series of meteorological images and
>moreover links with ‘increpat’ – ‘rattles’; much
>more vivid than the colourless ‘personans,’
>‘resounding.’ The third line in BR is ‘Procul
>fugentur somnia’, which means much the same as
>the line as I have given it, but uses more
>commonplace, less forceful words. ‘Pellantur’
>‘let them be driven (with some force)’ as
>opposed to ‘fugentur’ ‘let them be put to
>flight.’ The fourth line in BR is ‘Ab alto Jesus
>promicat’ – ‘Ab alto’ ‘from on high’ as opposed
>to ‘Ab aethre,’ ‘from the upper atmosphere, from
>heaven.’ The changes from the Monastic to the
>Roman breviary seem to me to exhibit a process
>all too common in hymnals, namely the removal of
>all that is unusual, poetic, striking or
>challenging in favour of what is bland, smooth
>and ordinary. But perhaps I speak as a grumpy
>old man, and someone more informed than myself
>will tell me that the BR version is more
>original, and that the monks screwed it up.
>
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