THL303: Introduction to Church History: Liturgical History

The historical study of the liturgy: The oral tradition ; Ancient witnesses of the tradition in the liturgical domain ; The archeological vestiges ; The written sources ; The method followed for this historical study --
Apostolic times: the first century: The sources ; The assemblies or synaxes ; Meal of the community and the "Lord's Supper" ; The "Lord's Supper" at Corinth ; The places used for the assemblies ; The accounts of baptisms ; The liturgy in time ; The liturgical ministries ; The rites of the Apostolic Church --
The liturgy in Christian minorities during times of relative clandestinity: The sources ; The assemblies ; The places used for the assemblies ; The Eucharistic celebration ; The synaxes on weekdays ; The liturgy of baptism ; Ministries and ordinations ; The reconciliation of penitents ; Liturgies for the martyrs and the dead ; The Paschal Feast ; The oil of the sick ; Marriage ; Conclusion --
The liturgy in the Roman Empire after the Peace of the Church: The sources ; The assemblies ; The Basilicas ; The Eucharistic celebration ; The synaxes on weekdays ; The baptismal liturgy ; Ministries and ordinations ; Marriage, a family ceremony ; The reconciliation of penitents ; The oil of the sick ; Liturgies for martyrs and the dead ; Feasts and calendars ; Conclusion: a golden age for the liturgy --
Christendom: the conversion of nations and the administration of the common people: The Carolingian renaissance and its effects on Chrstian institutions ; The importation of Roman liturgical books ; Evolution of the books of the Roman liturgy ; Stabilization of the liturgy of the Roman church --
Stability, fixity, and restorations of the Roman liturgy from the Twelfth century to Vatican II: The eclipse of the litrugical assembly ; From the Ecclesial celebration to the private mass ; The Missal of Pope Pius V ; From the celebration to the administration of the sacraments ; The funeral rites ; The calendar and feasts ; The expansion of devotions ; The arrangement of church buildings.

The ritual of Christian worship. The repertoire of rites ; The incarnational reality of Christian liturgy --
From meal to mass. Early Christian liturgy ; The patristic liturgical synthesis ; The Franco-Romano liturgy ; Medieval liturgical deteriorization ; The real presence and the sacrifice of the mass --
Reformation liturgical traditions. Luther's liturgical reforms ; Word and sacrament in Luther's reformation ; The emergence of Lutheran liturgy ; The spectrum of reformations ; Scandinavian liturgies ; Reconsideration of eucharistic sacrifice --
Liturgical loss, retrieval, and renewal. Liturgy in the Age of Certainty ; Liturgy in the Age of Reason ; Liturgy in the Age of Romanticism ; The modern liturgical movement ; Liturgical revision and renewal.

A monastic conception of the liturgical year / Stephan Borgehammar --
The divine office and private devotion in the Latin West / Jonathan Black --
The liturgy and the literature of saints' lives / Thomas J. Heffernan --
Liturgy and liturgical daily life in the medieval Greek world--the Byzantine Empire / Demetrios J. Constantelos --
The liturgical profile of the parish church in medieval Sweden / Sven Helander --
Jews and Judaism in the medieval Latin liturgy / Lawrence E. Frizzell and J. Frank Henderson --
Sacramental liturgies in the Middle Ages / Martin R. Dudley --
The office for Saint Cecilia / Sherry L. Reames. Architecture as liturgical setting / Elizabeth C. Parker --
Church porches and the liturgy in twelfth-century Rome / Nancy Spatz --
Liturgical vessels and implements / Elizabeth Parker McLachlan --
Manuscripts of the liturgy / Jeanne E. Krochalis and E. Ann Matter --
The Book of Hours / Roger S. Wieck --
Iconography in the liturgical life of the medieval Greek Church / Ambrose-Aristotle Zographos --
The liturgy and vernacular literature / Evelyn Birge Vitz --
Liturgical drama and community discourse / Thomas P. Campbell --
The music of the liturgy / Gabriela Ilnitchi --
Gregorius presul composuit hunc libellum musicae artis / James W. McKinnon --
Liturgy as social performance : expanding the definitions / C. Clifford Flanigan, Kathleen Ashley, and Pamela Sheingorn.

Creative beginnings: from the ascension of Jesus to Gregory the Great --
Franco-German leadership: from Gregory the Great to Gregory VII --
Dissolution, elaboration, reinterpretation, and misinterpretation: from Gregory VII to the Council of Trent --
Rigid unification in the liturgy and rubricism: from the Council of Trent to the Second Vatican Council.

A Comparison of the seven sacraments of the Catholic Church with their counterparts in the other Christian denominations.