Marking the hours : English people and their prayers, 1240-1570 / Eamon Duffy
2006, First Edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. Fine gilt-blocked cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Item #379778
ISBN: 0300117140
Physical description: xiv, 201 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Towards a history of intimacy. A book for lay people -- Devotional intimacy : a book of remembrance -- Devotional isolation? -- Sanctified whingeing? The voice of prayer in the late Middle Ages. A book for an aristocrat : the Talbot Hours -- The Roberts Hours : piety off the peg -- Sanctified whingeing? -- The prayers of Thomas More -- Catholic books in a Protestant world. The impact of print -- The break with Rome -- Marginality and eclipse. Subjects: Great Britain Church history To 1500, Pre-Reformation period.
Great Britain Church history 1500-1558, Reformation period. Church of England Laity. Geschichte 1240-1570. Books of hours England. Marginalia England. Prayer England History.
Price: €30.00