Victoria Zimmerl-Panagl - The Latin Poet Sedulius and the Prex Eucharistica

During the Middle Ages passages from the writings of the Latin Church Fathers were adapted for latin liturgy, inter alia, for prefaces of the eucharistic prayer. In my paper I am going to show that some prefaces are based on the works of the late-antique poet Sedulius (5^th century). A philological examination of these texts allows to identify a sequence of modifications, which could help to establish the chronological order among these prefaces.