Rituals of Victory: The Role of Liturgy in the Consecration of Mosques in the Castilian Expansion over Islam from Eleventh to Thirteenth Centuries

Scholarly work on the conquest of Muslim cities in so-called Castilian Reconquista has focused largely political consequences rather than rituals. Against previous background, this article turns attention toward civil and religious rituals associated with Christian as an expression triumph. Among these rituals, conversion congregational mosques been discussed chronicles liturgical books that reveals role liturgy to understand both appropriation sacralization mosque remove places from control, restoring faith new churches. These are evident legacy Roman law modified late antiquity, paper’s main aim is highlight re-use preexisting Church consecration ceremonies gathered Pontifical order clean up “Mohammedan filth” applied post-Reconquista