History of Liturgical Reform and Revision in the 19th and 20th Centuries: best books?

[whosebob]

JMJ + OBT​

What are the best books, out-of-print or in-print or soon to be published, that take a fair, balanced, round and detailed look at the liturgical revisions and reforms in the Roman Church over the past 150 years, and in particular the efforts that “produced” the Roman Missal and Divine Office as promulgated by Pope Paul VI?

Please, no recommendations of “conspiracy theory” books that will inform me how Paul VI was supplanted by a look-alike Masonic imposter, or space-alien or something.

Also, I’m not as much interested in books that look at all twenty centuries of liturgical development in the Catholic and/or Orthodox Church. I would like to study developments that are more localized to the last two centuries or so.

Thank you for your suggestions.

In the Hearts of Jesus and Mary.

IC XC NIKA

 

[Iohannes]

The Devasted Vineyard by Dr. Dietrich von Hilderbrand*
Cranmer’s Godly Order by Michael Davies
Pope John’s Council by Michael Davies
The Reform of the Roman Liturgy by Mgsr. Klaus Gamber
Ottaviani Intervention by Cardinal Ottaviani and Bacchi
Mediator Dei by Pope Pius XII

Books by Dom Prosper Gueranger, one of the most famous liturgist of the 19th Century.

*considered to be a great laydoctor by popes. Maybe out of print.

 

[Crusader]

Iohannes:

The Devasted Vineyard by Dr. Dietrich von Hilderbrand*
Cranmer’s Godly Order by Michael Davies
Pope John’s Council by Michael Davies
The Reform of the Roman Liturgy by Mgsr. Klaus Gamber
Ottaviani Intervention by Cardinal Ottaviani and Bacchi
Mediator Dei by Pope Pius XII

Books by Dom Prosper Gueranger, one of the most famous liturgist of the 19th Century.

*considered to be a great laydoctor by popes. Maybe out of print.

Michael Davies deals in polemics, not fact.

 

[Brennan_Doherty]

First off, I commend you for your interest in studying the liturgy. I recently got an excellent work entitled:

The Organic Development of the Liturgy: The Principles of Liturgical Reform and Their Relation to the 20th Century Liturgical Movement Prior to the Second Vatican Council

by Dom Alcuin Reid

ISBN: 0907077439
Publisher: St. Augustine’s Press; (May 1, 2004)

Amazon.com has a pretty good price right now:

amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0907077439/qid=1097767285/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/102-9455592-0277742?v=glance&s=books&n=507846

 

[Iohannes]

Crusader:

Michael Davies deals in polemics, not fact.

Have you read the two books I recommended? or are you just spouting your usual nonsense.

 

[mercygate]

Cardinal Ratzinger’s *Spirit of the Liturgy. *Ignatius Press.

There is a good book by a French Priest about the rationale for certain liturgical decisions in the Mass of Paul VI – help anybody? I cannot remember the author or title. Recent: less than 5 years ago.

F. Anson,* Fashions in Church Furnishings 1840 to 1940* (London, 1960)

No study of the liturgy is complete without Dom Gregory Dix: The Shape of the Liturgy

 

[Guy]

In our Deacon Formation classes, we were recommended to read:

“Real Presence, The Work of the Eucharist” by Nathan Mitchell

“Virgil Michel, American Catholic” by Franklin/Spaeth

Anybody familiar with these works?