Reassessing Fr Fortescue

Dr Peter Kwasniewski has an excellent article on the website of the New Liturgical Movement In it re gives a charitable but incisive assessment of the work of Fr Adrian Fortescue on the history of the Roman Mass. Arguing that more recent scholarship has done much to revise significant errors in Fr Fortescue’s work, errors which have had regrettable consequences amongst modern liturgists.*

Dr Kwasniewski also provides an indicator of which books one should read so as to understand the origins and development, or otherwise, of the Roman Rite.

He also commends other works by Fortescue which have not ceased to be of use to students and scholars.

The article can be read at On the Roman Mass, Don’t Take Your Cue from Fortescue 

* “What’s the difference between a terrorist and a liturgist? You can negotiate with a terrorist”