TY - BOOK AU - Hammerling,Roy TI - A history of prayer: the first to the fifteenth century T2 - Brill's companions to the Christian tradition, SN - 9789004171220 U1 - 298.483209 20A PY - 2008/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Prayer KW - Christianity KW - History KW - To 1500 N1 - Index; Bibliogr. p. [463]-470; Introduction : prayer : a simply complicated scholarly problem -- Prayer during the first to fourth century. Prayer in the first four centuries A.D. / L. Edward Phillips -- The Lord's Prayer in patristic literature / Karlfried Froehlich -- Piety and proclamation : Gregory of Nyssa's sermons on the Lord's Prayer / Michael Joseph Brown -- Prayer as theology / David W. Fagerberg -- Imageless prayer and the theological vision of Evagrius Ponticus / Columba Stewart -- The Lord's Prayer : a cornerstone of early batismal education / Roy Hammerling -- St. Augustine of Hippo : prayer as sacrament / Roy Hammerling -- Prayer during the fifth to eighth centuries. Prayer among the Benedictines / Columba Stewart -- The Lord's prayer in early Christian polemics to the eighth century / Roy Hammerling -- Prayer during the ninth to thirteenth centuries. The prayers and mediations of St. Anselm of Canterbury / Benedicta Ward -- Libelli precum in the central Middle Ages / Susan Boynton -- Thomas Aquinas on Christ's prayer / Corey Barnes -- Ashkenazic piyyut : Hebrew poetic prayer in a Latin environment (the tenth to the twelfth centuries) / Johannes Heil -- Prayer during the fourteenth to fifteenth centuries. Jan van Ruusbroec on the Trinity, prayer, and the nature of contemplation / Rik Van Nieuwenhove -- Prayer for the people : the Book of Hours / Roger S. Wieck -- Sermons on the Lord's Prayer and the Rogation Days in the later Middle Ages / Paul W. Robinson ER -