The Byzantine Rite: A Short History

by Robert Taft

Overview

Much has been written regarding the western liturgy; the same cannot be said of the Byzantine liturgy. Father Taft contributes to a remedy of that shortfall through this work. In it he traces the origins of the Byzantine Rite during its period of formation: from its earliest recorded beginnings until the end of Byzantium (1453 c.e.). While the rite has undergone some change in the period since then, its outlines remain essentially the same.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814621639
Publisher:	Liturgical Press
Publication date:	12/01/1992
Series:	American Essays in Liturgy
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.16(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

Robert F. Taft, SJ, 1932-2018, was an internationally acknowledged scholar of Eastern Christianity, especially its liturgy and liturgical history. He taught at Rome’s Pontifical Oriental Institute and at the University of Notre Dame.

Table of Contents

Contents
Abbreviations   7
Introduction   12
1.  The Byzantine Rite   16
2.  Paleo-Byzantine Liturgy: Byzance avant Byzance   22
3.  The Byzantine Rite Become Imperial   28
4.  The Dark Ages and Iconoclasm   42
5.  The Studite Era   52
6.  The Middle-Byzantine Synthesis   67
&.  The Neo-Sabaitic Ascendancy   78