With Angels and Archangels: Sharing the Worship of Heaven. Bible, Poetry, Liturgy and Devotion in the Middle Ages, by John Blakesley The Meaningful Chocolate Company Art-gilt edges

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Best known for her poems-turned-carols In the Bleak Midwinter and Love Came Down at Christmas

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With Angels and Archangels: Sharing the Worship of Heaven. Bible, Poetry, Liturgy and Devotion in the Middle Ages, by John Blakesley The Meaningful Chocolate Company Art-gilt edgesNowadays the inclusion of hymns, chants and sequences in Eucharistic worship is a well established and much loved feature of liturgical celebration that we tend to take for granted. How this came about is the subject of this present fascinating study in which John Blakesley guides us through the growth and development of chant, office hymns, sequences and tropes and their increased use in the Church of the Middle Ages. St Ambrose is credited with