The formation of the historical and liturgical research area in Russian academic scholarship in the late 19th – early 20th century. A comparative analysis of methodological approaches of N.V. Pokrovsky and I.A. Karabinov

In the second half of the 19th century – especially in the period following the introduction of the Academic Constitution of 1869, and in the 1880s and continuing until the forced closure of Theological Academies after the Revolutionary coup – the historical and liturgical research area in Russian academic science experienced a period of its formation and flourishing. The subject of the article is a comparison of approaches to the study of the worship service history and analysis of the formation of the research methodology for teaching  Liturgics  by  professors  N.V.  Pokrovsky  and  I.A.  Karabinov  of  the  St.  Petersburg Theological Academy, where they taught the history of Christian worship from the 1880’s until its forced closure in 1918. Analysis and juxtaposing of academic courses in Liturgics allows defining the boundaries and content of the discipline in the period of its formation as well as considering the evolution in research methodology and, more broadly, the formation of the Russian historical and liturgical scientific school. A comparison of the courses reveals the authors attitudes towards historical sources material and its studies. Their own ideas about the provenance of various rites used in church worship characterize their views on the development of the liturgical tradition, expressing their approaches to its study and thereby form our picture of the establishment of historical Liturgics as a field of  researchable  knowledge.

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