Primary sources (English version)
Pre-Constantinian
Didache, ch. 6-16. (5 p.) online source
Justin Martyr, Extracts from First Apology (Deiss, Lucien. Springtime of the Liturgy, Collegeville, 1979, p. 89-94). (6 p.) In compendium
Origen, On PrayerVII-VIII (5 p.) Online source
Apostolic Tradition (by some attributed to Hippolytus of Rome) (16 p.) online source
Two early hymns (1 p.):
- Ph?s hilaron (‘Gladsome Light’) Online source
- Gloria (‘Glory to God in the highest’) Online source
Jerusalem
Egeria’s travels, ch. 24-49. (20 p.) online source
The Liturgy of St. James (tr. Ephrem Lash): from “Let all mortal flesh keep silent” to “Our Father” (ca. 16 p.) online source
Armenian Lectionary (earliest extant Jerusalem Lectionary, Armenian version, 5th c.). (11 p.) online source
Cyril of Jerusalem, Five mystagogical catecheses. (excerpts, 8 p.) Online source
(For full English text with notes, see for instance here )
Sophronius of Jerusalem (d. 638): The Great Blessing of Waters. (From ‘Trinity beyond all being’ to ‘Give to all who partake of it sanctification, blessing, cleansing, health.’) (3 p.) online source
John Damascene, Paschal canon (8th c.). (6 p.) online source
Byzantium
Germanus of Constantinople. On the Divine Liturgy. The Greek text with translation, introduction and commentary by Paul Meyendorff. Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1984. (text, English 25 p.; commentary 46 p.) Book
Secondary litterature
Method and Research History
Bradshaw, Paul. The search for the origins of Christian worship : sources and methods for the study of early liturgy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002 (2nd ed.). (230 p.) Book
Witvliet, John D. “For our own purpose: the appropriation of the social sciences in liturgical studies”, p. 17-40, in: Paul Bradshaw and John Melloh, Foundations in Ritual Studies: A Reader for Students of Christian Worship. London, 2007. (24 p.) In compendium
Taft, Robert. “The Structural Analysis of Liturgical Units: An Essay in Methodology”, p. 187-202, in: Robert Taft, Beyond east and west: problems in liturgical understanding, 2nd rev. and enlarged ed., Rome, 1997. (16 p.) In compendium
Robert Taft, "Anton Baumstark's Comparative Liturgy Revisited", s. 191-232, in: Robert Taft og Gabriele Winkler (eds.), Comparative Liturgy Fifty Years After Anton Baumstark (1872-1948), Roma, 2001. In compendium.
General
Fr?yshov, Stig. “The Formation of a Fivefold Cursus of Daily Prayer in Pre-Constantinian Christianity: Backward Inferences from Later Periods”, p. 121-138 in: Daniel Galadza e.a. (eds.) TOΧOTHC. Studi per Stefano Parenti. Grottaferrata, 2010. (18 p.) Online source
Sheering, Daniel. “Eucharistic Liturgy”, p. 711-743, in: Susan Ashbrook Harvey and David G. Hunter, The Oxford Handbook of Early Christian Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. (34 p.). In compendium
Stringer, Martin. A Sociological History of Christian Worship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 1-119. (120 p.) Book
The Oxford History of Christian Worship, Geoffrey Wainwright and Karen Westerfield Tucker (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, ch. 2-3, pp. 32-130 (to ca. 622 CE). (ca. 100 p.) In compendium
Doig, Allan. Liturgy and Architecture. From the Early Church to the Middle Ages, Farnham: Ashgate, 2008, p. 1-83 (84 p.)
Jerusalem
Baldovin, John F. The Urban Character of Christian Worship. The Origins, Development, and Meaning of Stational Liturgy. Rome, 1987, p. 45-104. (60 p.) In compendium
Fr?yshov, Stig. ”Hymnody of the Rite of Jerusalem”, Canterbury Dictionary of Hymnology (Forthcoming in 2011). (ca. 20 p.) Online source (forthcoming)
Louth, Andrew. St. John Damascene. Tradition and Originality in Byzantine Theology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, p. 252-268 (17 p.; a commentary to John Damascene’s Pascal canon) In compendium
Mazza, Enrico. Mystagogy, A Theology of Liturgy in the Patristic Age, New York: Pueblo, 1989, p. 150-164 (15 p.; a commentary to Cyril of Jerusalem’s Mystigagogical cathecheses) In compendium
Verhelst, Stéphane, ”The Liturgy of Jerusalem in the Byzantine Period”, p. 421-462, in: O. Limor & G.G. Stroumsa (eds.), Christians and Christianity in the Holy Land. From the Origins to the Latin Kingdom, Turnhout: Brepols, 2006. (42 p.) In compendium
Witvliet, John D., “The Anaphora of St. James”, p. 153-172, in: Bradshaw, Paul (ed.). Essays on Early Eastern Eucharistic Prayers, Collegeville: The Liturgical Press, 1997. (20 p.) In compendium
Woolfenden, Gregory, ”From Jerusalem and the Palestinian Monastic Traditions to Modern Orthodoxy”, p. 49-74, in: Daily Liturgical Prayer. Origins and Theology. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004. (26 p.) In compendium ?
The compendia are available at the book store Akademika at the UiO campus. If you want it sent you have to contact the faculty and get permission to order them from the book store. Books you have to buy are:
Bradshaw, Paul. The search for the origins of Christian worship : sources and methods for the study of early liturgy. New York, 2002 (2nd ed.)
Stringer, Martin. A Sociological History of Christian Worship. Cambridge, 2005.
St. Germanus of Constantinople. On the Divine Liturgy. The Greek text with translation, introduction and commentary by Paul Meyendorff. Crestwood, New York: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 1984.
Doig, Allan. Liturgy and Architecture. From the Early Church to the Middle Ages, Farnham: Ashgate, 2008.