Liturgy in Byzantium and beyond /

Taft, Robert F.

Liturgy in Byzantium and beyond / Robert F. Taft. - Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain : Brookfield, Vt., USA : Variorum, 1995. - xii, 345 p. in various pagings ; 23 cm. - Variorum reprints : Collected studies series ; CS493 . - Collected studies ; CS493. .

Collection of nine papers by Robert F. Taft previously published between 1968 and 1990.

Includes bibliographical references.

The Byzantine liturgy: history and interpretation. The liturgy of the great church: an initial synthesis of structure and interpretation on the eve of Iconoclasm. -- The pontifical liturgy of the great church according to a twelfth-century diataxis in codex. -- The authenticity of the Chrysostom Anaphora revisited. Determining the authorship of liturgical texts by computer. -- Between Constantinople and Jerusalem: paradigms in the formation of the Byzantine liturgical synthesis. Mount Athos: a late chapter in the history of the Byzantine rite. -- In the bridegroom's absence. The Paschal Triduum in the Byzantine church. -- A tale of two cities. The Byzantine Holy Week Triduum as a paradigm of liturgical history. -- Liturgy beyone the Byzantine world. Some notes on the bema in the East and West Syrian traditions. -- On the use of the bema in the East-Syrian liturgy. -- The interpolation of the Sanctus into the anaphora: when and where? A review of the dossier.

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Orthodox Eastern Church--Liturgy.
Orthodox Eastern Church--Liturgy--History.


Eastern churches--History.
Eastern churches--Liturgy--History.

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