medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
The responses thus far have focused on Latin-rite Christianity. But your query was not so narrowly put. Still within Christianity, the next most important liturgical tradition in medieval Europe would be that of the Byzantine rite. The following are standard, inexpensive guides:
Taft, Robert F., _The Byzantine Rite: A Short History_ (Collegeville, MN: Liturgical Press, 1992). $14.95
Wybrew, Hugh, _The Orthodox Liturgy: The Development of the Eucharistic Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite (Crestwood, NY: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1990). $18.00
Taft's book, though broad in scope and quite helpful, is really brief (84 pp.). Moreover, its choice of which name form to use for a given liturgical book sometimes departs from what seems to be majority scholarly practice in English (e.g. "euchology" rather than "euchologion"). Wybrew's book, on the other hand, though more detailed concentrates on the eucharistic liturgy at the expense of the liturgy of the hours. For the latter see:
Taft, Robert F., _The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West, 2d rev. ed. (Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1993). $49.95
For Judaism, see:
Elbogen, Ismar, _Jewish Liturgy: A Comprehensive History_, tr. Raymond Scheindlin (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society; NY: Jewish Theological Seminary of America, 1993). Translated from a 1972 edition of a work previously last revised in 1931. ca. $66.00 from Amazon.
Lehnardt, Peter Sh., "The Role of Targum Samuel in European Jewish Liturgy", in Alberdina Houtman et al., eds., _A Jewish Targum in a Christian World_ (Leiden and New York: Brill, 2014), pp. 32-62. Updates Elbogen on medieval European liturgical books. The book this is in sells for $162.00 but most of it, including this chapter, is available for now via Google Books at:
http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Jewish_Targum_in_a_Christian_World.html?id=DL0FAwAAQBAJ
Best,
John Dillon
On 04/20/14, Meg Cormack wrote:
> Greetins all,
>
> I wonder if anyone could suggest articles or books about liturgical books for
>
> 1) students (such a work would probably contain an introduction to the liturgy as well as to the books!)
>
> 2) scholars - what I am looking for here would be, among other things, the different names that might be used for different liturgical books - i.e. what contents went with what name. If there are any studies out there of vernacular terminology for such books, I would especially like to know about them!
> Happy Easter,
>
> Meg
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