ABSTRACT
Just as the Eastern rites are divided into families, so too are the pre-Reformation Western rites. By far the most important is the Roman rite, important because Charlemagne encouraged its use throughout his kingdom. The result was the hybrid Romano-Germanic rite, which came to supplant most other usages, namely the Spanish or Visigothic (also called Mozarabic) and the Gallican/Frankish rites. Augustine of Canterbury introduced the Roman rite to England, where it displaced the Celtic rite. The Milanese rite alone survived as a living rite alongside the Roman rite.1 The hybrid forms, however, though mostly Roman, did include some material from the other supplanted usages. In this chapter we turn to consider the different families and the new hybrid forms, and in particular their Anglo-Saxon recensions.
