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In 1921, Anton Baumstark delivered two lectures on thendevelopment of the Roman Rite to a gathering at the Abbey ofnMaria Laach. Abbot Ildefons Herwegen offered to publish thosenlectures, but Baumstark decided to write a book on the topicninstead, which was published two years later as On the HistoricalnDevelopment of the Liturgy. It would be another sixteen years beforenhe produced Comparative Liturgy, for which he is better known.nTogether the two books lay out Baumstark's liturgical methodology.nComparative Liturgy presents his method; On the HistoricalnDevelopment of the Liturgy offers his model.nFor nearly a century, On the Historical Development of the Liturgynhas been valued by specialists in the field of liturgical studies, bothnfor its deillegalscription of comparative liturgy and for the portrayalnof patterns Baumstark discerns in liturgical development. Alsonsignificant are the hypotheses Baumstark proposes and the evidencenhe brings to bear on problems in liturgical history. In this annotatednedition, Fritz West provides the first English translation of this work by Anton Baumstark.
