Liturgy of Empire: Reading the Mozarabic Rite in Early Modern Europe, 1500-1800

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71733-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 87, 276 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: The Medieval and Early Modern Iberian World

Liturgy of Empire examines the European reception of the neo-Mozarabic rite created under the patronage of the Archbishop of Toledo, Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros (1495-1517), in relation to the history of the Mozarabs of Toledo, the development of bibliophilia and libraries, the scholarly study of medieval liturgy, and the crusading ideology of Spanish expansionism in the Mediterranean.

During the emergence of Spain’s global empire, the editions of the Mozarabic rite entered collections throughout Europe. The provenance of the copies (studied here for the first time) reveals their mediation of knowledge about Iberian history and the political contexts for their acquisition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Boynton, Susan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Figures

1 Reconstructing the Rite 1 From Decline to Reconstruction 2 Philology and Liturgy 3 Remaking the Rite 4 Imprint and Image 5 Relocating the Rite Appendix A: Prefaces and Colophon of the Mozarabic Editions

2 Defining the Mozarabs 1 Mozarabic Origins 2 The Mozarabs and Arabic 3 The Mozarabs as the Tenth Nation 4 Definitions of the Mozarabs after 1492 5 The “Mozarabic Question” Appendix B: Timeline and Summary of Mozarabic Definitions

3 Remembering the Rite 1 Textual Accounts of the Campaign 2 Oran and Cisneros 3 Oran and the Mozarabic Rite 4 Framing History 5 The Rite in the Eighteenth Century Appendix C: Petition from the clergy of the Mozarabic parishes in Toledo (undated copy)

4 Collecting the Rite 1 Sixteenth-Century Owners 2 Seventeenth-Century Owners 3 Eighteenth-Century Owners 4 French Collections in the Eighteenth Century 5 Modern Collections 6 A Mozarabic Missal as Microcosm

5 Understanding the Rite 1 Philology and Liturgy 2 Annotations as a Sign of Use 3 Case Study: The Hymn for Saint Thyrsus 4 A Failed Experiment: Spain in Pierre Le Brun’s Liturgical Survey 5 Pinius’s Research in Toledo 6 Jesuit Historians of the Rite: Lesley and Burriel 7 Lorenzana and the Republication of the Rite 8 Faustino Arévalo: The End of an Era

Conclusion

Appendix 1: Exchange of letters between Blas Jover y Alcázar and Gregorio Mayans y Siscar

Appendix 2: Copies of the Ortiz Editions and Their Provenance

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Susan Boynton is Professor of Music at Columbia University. Among her publications on liturgy and music are Shaping a Monastic Identity: Liturgy and History at the Imperial Abbey of Farfa, 1000-1125 (2006) and Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (2011).