Mozarabic Liturgy

This is the name given to the liturgy used by Christians in the Iberian peninsula living under the rule of the moors before the reconquest of Spain. Because it was in use before the coming of the Arabs, the designation ‘Mozarabic’ tends to be avoided by modern scholars; ‘Old Hispanic’ is usually preferred. This liturgical rite was superseded, not without resistance, when the Roman liturgy was imposed on Spain by order of the Council of Burgos in 1080. It remained in use in some Toledan parish churches, and the use was revived by Archbishop Cisneros in the late-15th century. The early 16th-century neo-Mozarabic Cantorals and the 13th-century Toledan manuscripts preserving the medieval rite...