Regional History of the Byzantine Rite

拜占庭礼仪是继罗马礼仪之后第二重要的基督教礼仪传统。它名义上是由大约3亿信徒在世界各地。到目前为止，还没有专门介绍他的历史的手册，尽管整个国际社会的拜占庭主义者和其他从事中世纪和当代历史和文化的学者都非常需要这样一种工具。 礼拜仪式是比赞蒂诺人生活中的一个重要时刻。它占据了相当大的社交空间。为此，我建议研究并出版一本学术专著，说明拜占庭仪式的起源和历史，暂定标题为：“拜占庭仪式的区域历史。从首都到纪念馆：那里和回来。这本书预计将是CA。500页，并将考虑拜占庭礼仪传统的历史，从其起源的时期在第四世纪，直到君士坦丁堡的秋天在1453年，也就是说，从古代晚期到中世纪结束。该项目的目标是填补欧洲文化史，基督教和礼仪史的空白。这项研究不仅对礼仪学者有用，而且对神学家、拜占庭学者和中世纪学者也有用：他们现在都更加意识到礼仪在中世纪世界的重要性。对于那些在欧洲教授当代宗教文化的人来说也是如此。 该项目旨在批判性地重新审视以前的研究，并寻求解决它们提出的问题的方法。我已经写了一些文章，论证了所谓的“学生改革”的某些重构需要认真纠正和改进。以下是我将在我的项目中开发的主要主题：1。根据拜占庭帝国历史学家和最近出版的原始资料，重新考虑拜占庭礼仪历史的分期。2.在新的基础上研究中心与边缘的辩证法.通过使用希腊语叙词表（TLG）和其他数据库，以更系统的方式介绍通过“非礼仪”来源（如说教，圣徒传和一般文献）对礼仪的研究。4.关注礼仪的规范来源，如君士坦丁堡牧首辖区的Regesta，它尚未被礼仪主教系统地使用。5.重新思考礼仪诗的起源，演变和文学体裁的传播，特别是kontakion和赞美诗正典的问题。 6.发展一种拜占庭式的礼仪改革现象学，以面对其他学者提出的范式。为该项目提出的方法将把各省/大都会作为研究的起点，而不仅仅是作为有用的材料来验证它们相对于中心的“落后性”，这在过去的研究中往往是隐含的。

The Byzantine rite is the second most important Christian liturgical tradition after the Roman rite. It is nominally followed by circa 300 million faithful throughout the world. Up to now there is no manual dedicated to his history despite the great need for such an instrument throughout the international community of Byzantinists and other scholars engaged in both medieval and contemporary history and culture. The liturgy was an important moment in the life of the homo bizantinus. It filled a considerable social space. For this reason, I propose to research and publish a scholarly monograph illustrating the origins and the history of the Byzantine rite, with the provisory title: “Regional History of the Byzantine rite. From the Capital to the Peripheries: There and Back.” The book is expected to be of ca. 500 pages and will consider the history of the Byzantine liturgical tradition from the period of its origin in the fourth century until the fall of Constantinople in 1453, that is, from Late Antiquity to the end of the Middle Ages. The goal of this project is to fill a gap in the cultural history of Europe, of Christianity and of Liturgical History. The study will be useful not only for liturgical scholars, but also for theologians, Byzantine scholars and medievalists: all of them are now more conscious of the importance of the liturgy in the medieval world. The same is true also for those who teach contemporary religious culture in Europe. The project aim to to revisit critically the previous studies and seek for a solution to the problems they pose. I have already written some articles demonstrating that some reconstruction of the so called “Studite reform” need serious correction and improvement. What follows are the main topics I will develop in my project: 1. Reconsider the periodization of the history of the Byzantine liturgy in light of the results obtained by the historians of the Byzantine empire and by recently published original sources. 2. Study the dialectics between centre and periphery on a new basis.3. Introduce in a more systematic way the study of liturgy through “non-liturgical” sources such as homiletics, hagiography and literature in general, through the use of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG) and other database. 4. Focus on the canonical sources for the liturgy like the Regesta of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, which has not yet been systematically used by liturgical scholars.5. Reconsider the origins, evolution and diffusion of the literary genres of liturgical poetry, especially the problem of the kontakion and the hymnographic canon. 6. Develop a Byzantine phenomenology of liturgical reform to confront with the paradigms proposed by other scholars.The method proposed for the project will consider the provinces/metropolis as a starting point for research and not only as material useful to verify their “backwardness” with respect to the centre, as has often been the implication in past studies.