Table of Contents

Introduction; 1. The last supper; 2. The Eucharist in the early church; 3. Development of Eucharistic prayers in the third and fourth century; 4. The formative period of Latin liturgy; 5. Roman stational liturgy; 5. The expansion and adaptation of the Roman liturgy in the Carolingian Age; 7. From the Ottonian Revival to the High Middle Ages; 8. Decline and vitality in the later Middle Ages; 9. The Tridentine Reform; Epilogue.

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A history of the common structure and ritual shape of the Roman Mass from Eucharistic origins to the Tridentine reform.

About the Author

Uwe Michael Lang is an adjunct faculty member at the Institute of Theology and Liberal Arts at St. Mary's University, Twickenham and Allen Hall Seminary. A priest of the Oratory of St. Philip Neri in London, he is the author of Turning Towards the Lord: Orientation in Liturgical Prayer and Signs of the Holy One: Liturgy, Ritual and Expression of the Sacred. He is the editor of Antiphon: A Journal for Liturgical Renewal.