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MARKING THE HOURS ENGLISH PEOPLE AND THEIR PRAYERS 1240-1570

by Eamon Duffy

Published by Yale University Press. 1st PB. 2011

Very good condition. A richly illustrated book discussing the Book of Hours. Black cardwraps. 201 pages. Colour photos throughout.

Spine faded with some fading to front edge too. Corners just a little bumped and rubbed. Contents fine.

ISBN: 9780300170580
Stock no. 1325120

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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

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