Marking the Hours
English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570
$47.99
- Paperback
216 pages
- Release Date
15 March 2011
Summary
Personal prayer books and the jottings in their margins tell us about their owners and about life in late medieval and Reformation England
In this richly illustrated book, religious historian Eamon Duffy discusses the Book of Hours, unquestionably the most intimate and most widely used book of the later Middle Ages. He examines surviving copies of the personal prayer books which were used for private, domestic devotions, and in which people commonly left traces of the…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780300170580 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0300170580 |
| Author: | Eamon Duffy |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Imprint: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 216 |
| Release Date: | 15 March 2011 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 241mm |
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Critics Review
”‘Medievalists will welcome Marking the Hours’ (Sarah Williams, BBC History Magazine) ‘Eamon Duffy’s Marking the Hours brilliantly opens up ‘windows on men’s souls’ - as well as being this year’s most beautifully produced work of history.’ (John Adamson, The Sunday Telegraph) ‘This is a glorious feast of a book. Yale University Press has, as always, devoted extraordinary resources to making it both beautiful and good… With Duffy as our guide, the apparently random scribbles of often nameless men and women start to sound like a clear message from the distant past.’ (Kathryn Hughes, The Guardian) ‘The most beautiful history book of the year’ (Ruth Scurr, The Times) ‘Once again, as readable and convincing as in The Striping of the Altars, Professor Duffy brings alive the daily life of English people in the two centuries before the Reformation, this time through the beautiful prayer books that they often annotated or defaced in a revealing way.’ (Christopher Howse, The Spectator)”
Eamon Duffy
Eamon Duffy is the professor of the History of Christianity, and Fellow and Director of Studies, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge. He lives in Cambridge, UK.
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