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 (1495â1517), 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 Spainâs 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.
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).
Preface Acknowledgments List of Figures
1 Reconstructing the Rite
â1âFrom Decline to Reconstruction
â2âPhilology and Liturgy
â3âRemaking the Rite
â4âImprint and Image
â5âRelocating the Rite
âAppendix A: Prefaces and Colophon of the Mozarabic Editions
2 Defining the Mozarabs
â1âMozarabic Origins
â2âThe Mozarabs and Arabic
â3âThe Mozarabs as the Tenth Nation
â4âDefinitions of the Mozarabs after 1492
â5âThe âMozarabic Questionâ
âAppendix B: Timeline and Summary of Mozarabic Definitions
3 Remembering the Rite
â1âTextual Accounts of the Campaign
â2âOran and Cisneros
â3âOran and the Mozarabic Rite
â4âFraming History
â5âThe Rite in the Eighteenth Century
âAppendix C: Petition from the clergy of the Mozarabic parishes in Toledo (undated copy)
4 Collecting the Rite
â1âSixteenth-Century Owners
â2âSeventeenth-Century Owners
â3âEighteenth-Century Owners
â4âFrench Collections in the Eighteenth Century
â5âModern Collections
â6âA Mozarabic Missal as Microcosm
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
Institutes, (academic) libraries, specialists, (post-graduate) students in European history, art history, music history, book history, history of the Iberian peninsula, history of liturgy.