How the Mass looked 100 years before Trent

[Maximian]

It’s interesting because we are often being told that Trent changed the Mass as much as V2 did later.

But this reconstruction shows this isn’t the case. Nobody familiar with the TLM will find this much different.

 

[Wesrock]

My understanding is that there were many more rites in the west prior to Trent. Maybe part of it comes from that.

 

[Maximian]

Well yes. But the point is that these so called “numerous “ rites were actually pretty similar to each other.

 

[Genesis315]

Yeah, the Ordo for the Roman rite stayed pretty much the same. Most of the changes were increasing uniformity in the propers and calendar. Local rites that weren’t very old were abolished. There’s really nothing comparable to the radical change after Vatican II, accept perhaps between the 2nd and 5th centuries. But then, it was the building up of a rite on a basic frame, not the dismantling or remaking of a rite when an existing fleshed out rite already existed.

 

[umamibella]

There was quite a variation in what Mass looked like before Trent. Everyone was doing their own thing, according to their own interpretation of the Mass rites.

There were many differences regionally.

Council of Trent | Definition, Summary, Significance, Results, & Facts | Britannica

The Council of Trent consolidated and refined and threw out bad practice and standardized.
Yes it was called in response to Protestantism, it did much more then that though.

Bishops and presbyters were doing their own thing regionally so everything was standardised and clergy roles defined better.

 

[AlbMagno]

This video was already discussed before:

Catholic mass in medieval times Traditional Catholicism

A good re-enactment of a Mass around 1450AD. [Historical Recreation of a 15th Century Catholic Latin Mass]

 

[ralfyman]

Pre-Tridentine Mass - Wikipedia