Histories and Guides to the Medieval Liturgy

For England in the middle Ages, the most important form of the liturgy is the Sarum Missal, or Missal according to the Use of Sarum, organized by the Bishop of Salisbury and chancellor of England in the late 11th century. The two other important late medieval rites in England are those of York and Hereford.

• Pierre Batiffol. History of the Roman Breviary. Translation by A.M.Y. Baylay. London: Longmans Green, 1898.
• Boyd, Beverly. Chaucer and the Liturgy. Philadelphia: Dorrance and Co, 1967. Particularly helpful: the bibliography and chapter I, "The Sources."
• Bishop, Edmund. Liturgica Historica: Papers on the Liturgy and Religious Life of the Western Church. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1918.
• Dix, Dom Gregory. The Shape of the Liturgy. New York: Seabury, 1982.
• Fortescue, Adrain. The Mass: A Study of the Roman Liturgy. London: Longmans Green, 1912.
• Hughes, Andrew. Medieval Manuscripts for Mass and Office. A Guide to their Organization and Terminology. Toronto UP, 1982.
• Jungmann, Josef A. The Mass of the Roman Rite. New York: Benziger, 1951-55.
• Kaske, R. E. Medieval Christian Literary Imagery. Toronto Medieval Bibliographies, 11. Toronto UP, 1988.
• Knowles, David. The Monastic Order in England. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1963.
• Pfaff, Richard. Medieval Latin Liturgy: A Select Bibliography. Toronto: Univ. of Toronto Press, 1982.
• Vogel, Cyrille. Medieval Liturgy. An Introduction to the Sources. Transl. & Rev. by William Storey and Niels Rasmussen. Washington, D.C.: The Pastoral Press, 1986.

For finding where any Bible reading occurs in the church year, see the appendix "Passages from Holy Scripture" to the Missale ad Usum Insignis et Praeclarae Ecclesiae Sarum, ed. F. H. Dickinson. 1863; Farnborough, 1969.