Srawley J.H. The Early History of The Liturgy

Cambridge: University Press, 1913 — 284 p.The present handbook is intended to set before beginners in the study of the early liturgy the main factors in the history of its developement. It makes no pretension to completeness, nor has it been found possible, within the limits of space available, to treat in detail many of the perplexing problems which meet the student in this field of study. My object has been to select from the mass of materials accumulated in the larger works which are available those facts in the evidence which seemed to be of crucial importance, and to reserve judgement where the evidence seemed inconclusive. Many theories (e.g. with regard to the Roman Canon) have been passed over without detailed discussion, as it seemed better to put the young student in possession of the main facts, before introducing him to the various conjectural reconstructions of the history which have been put forward in recent times.