The Liturgy in Medieval England

Richard W. Pfaff is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His numerous publications include New Liturgical Feasts in Later Medieval England (1970), Montague Rhodes James (1980), and Liturgical Calendars, Saints, and Services in Medieval England (1998). He is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America, the Society of Antiquaries of London, and the Royal Historical Society, and is a Vice-President of the Henry Bradshaw Society.

1. Introduction; 2. Early Anglo-Saxon England: a partly traceable story; 3. Later Anglo-Saxon: liturgy for England; 4. The Norman conquest: cross fertilizations; 5. Monastic liturgy, 1100–1215; 6. Benedictine liturgy after 1215; 7. Other monastic orders; 8. The non-monastic religious orders: canons regular; 9. The non-monastic religious orders: friars; 10. Old Sarum: the beginnings of Sarum use; 11. New Sarum and the spread of Sarum use; 12. Exeter: the fullness of secular liturgy; 13. Southern England: final Sarum use; 14. Regional uses and local variety; 15. Towards the end of the story.