Liturgy's Imagined Past/s: Methodologies and Materials in the Writing of Liturgical History Today

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Teresa Berger, Bryan D. Spinks
Liturgical Press, 2016 M05 3 - 336 pages
This book calls attention to the importance of scholarly reflection on the writing of liturgical history. The essays not only probe the impact of important shifts in historiography but also present new scholarship that promises to reconfigure some of the established images of liturgy’s past. Based on papers presented at the 2014 Yale Institute of Sacred Music Liturgy Conference, Liturgy’s Imagined Past/s seeks to invigorate discussion of methodologies and materials in contemporary writings on liturgy’s pasts and to resource such writing at a point in time when formidable questions are being posed about the way in which historians construct the object of their inquiry.
 

Contents

Historical Methodologies
3
How Historians Are Animating
19
New Reflections on the Image of Late Antique
39
The Traditio Apostolica
93
Gregorian Chants Imagined Past with Yet Another Look
143
History Theology and Memory
176
On the Wrong Side of History? Reimagining William
205
Liturgys Past on the American Frontier
230
The Case of Civil
251
From Earliest Christianity
275
List of Contributors
303
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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.

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