The urban character of Christian worship
Subtitle: the origins, development, and meaning of stational liturgy
By: John F. Baldovin
Series: Orientalia Christiana analecta -- 228; Orientalia Christiana analecta -- 228.
Publisher: Pont. Institutum Studiorum Orientalium
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Roma
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Liturgics; History; Liturgical adaptation; Early Christian Liturgies
Description: No serious study of the historical development of Christian worship can be undertaken today without attention to the social context in which the Christian liturgies were formed. In this study the author surveys three different urban contexts which were crucial for the development of the Byzantine and Roman rites in the early Middle Ages. The stational systems of Jerusalem, Rome and Constantinople are described in detail and compared, reealing major similarities and differences in the worship inspired by these diverse urban milieux. In addition, the author sheds valuable light on the social development and impact of Christianity on Byzantine and Roman culture in the Late Antique and Early Medieval periods.
Notes: Includes index.

Revision of author's thesis (Ph.D.)--Yale, 1984.

Bibliography: p. [13]-31.