Liturgy's Imagined Past/s

Teresa Berger is professor of liturgical studies at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music and at Yale Divinity School where she also holds an appointment as the Thomas E. Golden Jr. Professor of Catholic Theology. She is the author, most recently, of @ Worship: Liturgical Practices in Digital Worlds (Routledge, 2018) and editor or co-editor of three previous volumes from the Yale ISM Liturgy Conferences from Liturgical Press.Bryan D. Spinks is the Bishop F. Percy Goddard Professor of Liturgical Studies and Pastoral Theology at Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Yale Divinity School, and Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. A priest in the Church of England, his most recent book is Do This in Remembrance of Me: The Eucharist from the Early Church to the Present Day. He is editor and co-editor of two previous volumes from the Yale ISM Liturgy Conferences.

"With both theoretical reflections and examples of new approaches, this volume is a key addition to considering the range of methodologies needed for the writing of liturgical history."Lester Ruth, Duke Divinity School

• ContentsList of Illustrations   viiForeword ixMartin D. JeanAcknowledgments   xiPart 1: Foundational Matters1. Imagining the Past: Historical Methodologies and Liturgical Study   3Bryan D. Spinks2. Liturgy’s Present: How Historians Are Animating a “New” History of Liturgy   19Miri RubinPart 2: New Perspectives on Liturgy’s Past/s3. New Reflections on the Image of Late Antique and Medieval Ethiopian Liturgy   39Emmanuel Fritsch4. Imagining Early Christian Liturgy: The Traditio Apostolica—A Case Study   93Maxwell E. Johnson5. Liturgical Historiography and Gender Obliviousness: Re-Dressing an Imagined Past   121Teresa BergerPart 3: Liturgy’s Past/s: Broadening the View6. Gregorian Chant’s Imagined Past, with Yet Another Look at the Roman Lenten Repertoire   143Harald Buchinger7. “It Is the Lord’s Passover”: History, Theology, and Memory in the Liturgy of the Lord’s Supper in Reformation Zurich   176Bruce Gordon8. On the Wrong Side of History? Reimagining William Whittingham, Dean of Durham, 1563–1579   205Bryan D. Spinks9. Liturgy’s Past on the American Frontier   230Melanie C. Ross10. Hymnals as Theological Texts: The Case of Civil War Publications   251Karen B. Westerfield TuckerPart 4: The Presence and Future of Liturgy’s Past/s11. The Changing Shape of Liturgy: From Earliest Christianity to the End of Late Antiquity   275Wendy MayerList of Contributors  303Index   306