MARKING THE HOURS ENGLISH PEOPLE AND THEIR PRAYERS 1240-1570
Written by Eamon Duffy
Published by Yale University Press
in 2011
ISBN: 9780300170580
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- HISTORY
- HISTORY GENERAL
- PRAYER
MARKING THE HOURS ENGLISH PEOPLE AND THEIR PRAYERS 1240-1570
Written by Eamon Duffy.
Stock no. 1325120
1st PB.
2011.
Softcover.
Very good condition.
A richly illustrated book discussing the Book of Hours. Black cardwraps. 201 pages. Colour photos throughout. ISBN: 9780300170580. Spine faded with some fading to front edge too. Corners just a little bumped and rubbed. Contents fine.
Front cover
Contents
- Preface
- List of illustrations
- PART 1 TOWARDS A HISTORY OF INTIMACY
- 1. A Book for Lay People
- 2. Devotional Intimacy: A Book of Remembrance
- 3. Devotional Isolation?
- PART 2 SANCTIFIED WHINGEING? THE VOICE OF PRAYER IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
- 4. A Book for an Aristocrat: The Talbot Hours
- 5. The Roberts Hours: Piety off the Peg
- 6. Sanctified Whingeing?
- 7. The Prayers of Thomas More
- PART 3 CATHOLIC BOOKS IN A PROTESTANT WORLD
- 8. The Impact of Print
- 9. The Break with Rome
- 10. Marginality and Eclipse
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Photographic credits