Regional History of the Byzantine Rite

拜占庭仪式是仅次于罗马仪式的第二大基督教礼仪传统。名义上，全世界大约有3亿信徒追随它。到目前为止，还没有专门介绍他的历史的手册，尽管整个国际社会对拜占庭主义者和从事中世纪和当代历史和文化的其他学者都非常需要这样一种工具。礼拜仪式是Bizantinus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阐述拜占庭仪式起源和历史的学术专著，书名为《拜占庭仪式地域史》。从首都到外围：从那里到回来。这本书预计有大约500页，将考虑拜占庭礼仪传统的历史，从它的起源时期在公元4世纪到1453年君士坦丁堡的衰落，也就是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、基督教文化史和礼仪文化史的空白。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。在欧洲教授当代宗教文化的人也是如此。该项目旨在批判性地重新审视以前的研究，并寻求解决它们所带来的问题的方法。我已经写了一些文章，证明所谓的“学生改革”的一些重建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所获得的结果，重新考虑拜占庭礼拜仪式的历史分期。2.在新的基础上研究中心与边缘的辩证法。更系统地通过说教、圣徒传记和文学等“非礼仪”来源，通过使用词库(TLG)和其他数据库，更系统地介绍礼拜仪式的研究。4.专注于礼拜仪式的规范来源，如君士坦丁堡大主教的礼仪，它尚未被礼仪学者系统地使用。重新思考礼仪诗的文学流派的起源、演变和传播，特别是Kontakion和赞美诗经典的问题。6.发展拜占庭礼仪改革现象学，以对抗其他学者提出的范例。为该项目提出的方法将把各省/大都市作为研究的起点，而不是像过去研究中经常暗示的那样，仅仅作为证明其相对于中心的“落后”的材料。

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.