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In this rich study of the Liber Ymnorum of Notker Balbulus, Felix Heinzer explores the quality of Notker as a poet composing for the liturgy, using textual and theological analysis to illuminate a major instance of Carolingian creativity. In a first part, Heinzer examines this poetry in its own time, arguing that Notker envisioned his labours as an emulation of the biblical psalms. In a second part, Heinzer traces the long afterlife of the Liber Ymnorum, far beyond the Abbey of St Gall and reaching into the early modern period. At the heart of Heinzer's broad-ranging contextualization of Notker's work is his conviction that Notker's sequences must be considered 'a valuable part of the premodern literary and religious culture of the Latin West.' Heinzer is sure-footed in his recognition of musical structures as fundamental to Notker's creative ideas, while the vividness of his philological and theological analyses offers remarkable new insights. -- Susan Rankin, University of Cambridge

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Felix Heinzer retired as Professor of Medieval Latin at the University of Freiburg in 2015. Currently Senior Professor at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, Hamburg, he has also been a visiting scholar at the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, the University of California, Berkeley, and the Stanford Humanities Center. Formerly curator of manuscripts at Stuttgart, Wurttembergische Landesbibliothek (1988-2005), his scholarly interests center on monastic libraries and their holdings, especially in the area around Lake Constance and the Upper Rhine, and on the liturgy and sacred poetry of the Latin Middle Ages. Extensive work in these fields includes Klosterreform und mittelalterliche Buchkultur im deutschen Sudwesten (2008), Hermann der Lahme: Reichenauer Monch und Universalgelehrter des 11. Jahrhunderts, co-edited with Thomas Zotz (2016), and Medial Ambiguity: Liturgical Books of the Latin Church and Their Changing Status in Mediaeval Tradition, Manuscript Cultures 10 (2017).

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