Heortology

About this eBook

Author

Kellner, K. A. Heinrich (Karl Adam Heinrich), 1837-1915

Title

Heortology : A history of the Christian festivals from their origin to the present day

Original Publication

United Kingdom: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, 1908.

Credits

deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

BV: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Christianity: Practical theology, Worship

Subject

Church year

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 70963

Release Date

June 12, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.AUTHOR’S PREFACE TO THE FIRST GERMAN EDITION
3. 3.AUTHOR’S PREFACE OF THE SECOND GERMAN EDITION
4. 4.TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
5. 5.BOOKS QUOTED AND REFERRED TO — (A) MEDIÆVAL WORKS, WHICH IN SOME DEGREE ARE OF THE NATURE OF ORIGINAL SOURCES — (B) MORE RECENT WORKS EMPLOYED OR REFERRED TO — ( a ) By Catholic Authors — ( b ) By Non-Catholic Authors
6. 6.TABLE OF CONTENTS
7. 7.HEORTOLOGY — PART I THE CHURCH’S FESTIVALS IN GENERAL — 1. Introduction — 2. Sunday and its Observance as a Day of Rest — 3. The Classification of Festivals — 4. The Gradual Increase of Festivals. Their Decrease in the Last Three Centuries. The Present Position
8. 8.PART II — CHAPTER I THE CHURCH’S YEAR — A. Easter, and the Sacred Seasons connected with Easter — B. Christmas and the Christmas Season — C. Other Incidents in the Church’s Year
9. 9.CHAPTER II THE SAINTS’ DAYS — 1. The origins of the Cultus of the Saints and the Grounds on which it Rests — 2. The Festivals of St John the Baptist and St Stephen the Proto-Martyr — 3. Festivals of our Blessed Lady in General — 4. The Three Ancient Festivals of our Blessed Lady—the Nativity, the Annunciation, the Assumption — 5. Institution and Spread of the Festival of the Immaculate Conception — 6. The Lesser Feasts of Our Lady — 7. The Feast of St Joseph. [582] The Cultus of SS. Joachim and Anne — 8. The Festivals of the Apostles in General — 9. The Festivals of the Apostles and Evangelists in Particular — 10. The Festivals of St Mary Magdalen, St Cecilia, and St Catherine ( 22nd July, 22nd and 25th November ) — 11. The Festival of All Saints — 12. The Commemoration of All Souls — 13. The Festivals of the Angels — 14. The Two Festivals in Honour of the Holy Cross ( 3rd May and 14th September )
10. 10.PART III THE MATERIAL UPON WHICH THE HISTORY OF THE ECCLESIASTICAL YEAR IS BASED — 1. The Documentary Sources in General — 2. The Earliest Christian Calendars — 3. The Arian Calendar of the Fourth Century ( About 370-380 ) — 4. The so-called Martyrologium Hieronymianum ( Second Half of the Seventh Century ) — 5. The Lectionary and Martyrology of Silos — 6. Egyptian (Coptic) Calendars and Synaxaria — 7. The Menology of Constantinople (Eighth Century) — 8. The Menology of the Emperor Basil II., and the Syrian Lectionary of the Eleventh Century — 9. The Kalendarium Marmoreum of Naples — 10. Western Authorities from the Sixth to the Eighth Centuries — 11. The Martyrologies of Bede, Florus, Wandelbert, and Œngus [812] — 12. The Martyrologies of Ado, Usuardus, Rabanus Maurus, and Notker Balbulus — 13. Important Calendars from the Eighth to the Eleventh Centuries — CONCLUSION
11. 11.APPENDIX — I — (p. 16 ) — II — (p. 24 ) — (p. 25 ) — (p. 26 ) — III — (p. 35 ) The Festivals of Obligation as observed in Different Countries — IV — (p. 71 ) — V — (p. 79 ) The Word Mass as a Name for the Sacrifice of the Altar — VI — (p. 142 ) On the Date for Christmas in Hippolytus — VII — (p. 158 ) Christmas in England during the Commonwealth — VIII — (p. 173 ) Excursus on the Three Holy Kings — IX — (p. 182 ) The Greek Ecclesiastical Year — X — (p. 248 ) English Writers and the Feast of the Immaculate Conception — XI — (pp. 243 , 347 ) Excursus on the so-called Typica
12. 12.FOOTNOTES
13. 13.CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE GIVING THE CHIEF EVENTS RELATING TO THE LITURGY AND FESTIVALS OF THE CHURCH
14. 14.INDEX

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