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.

• ContentsAbbreviations   7Introduction   121.  The Byzantine Rite   162.  Paleo-Byzantine Liturgy: Byzance avant Byzance   223.  The Byzantine Rite Become Imperial   284.  The Dark Ages and Iconoclasm   425.  The Studite Era   526.  The Middle-Byzantine Synthesis   67&.  The Neo-Sabaitic Ascendancy   78

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.

• ContentsAbbreviations   7Introduction   121.  The Byzantine Rite   162.  Paleo-Byzantine Liturgy: Byzance avant Byzance   223.  The Byzantine Rite Become Imperial   284.  The Dark Ages and Iconoclasm   425.  The Studite Era   526.  The Middle-Byzantine Synthesis   67&.  The Neo-Sabaitic Ascendancy   78

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.

• ContentsAbbreviations   7Introduction   121.  The Byzantine Rite   162.  Paleo-Byzantine Liturgy: Byzance avant Byzance   223.  The Byzantine Rite Become Imperial   284.  The Dark Ages and Iconoclasm   425.  The Studite Era   526.  The Middle-Byzantine Synthesis   67&.  The Neo-Sabaitic Ascendancy   78