Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570

by Eamon Duffy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300170580
• ISBN13: 9780300170580
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.5" x 9.4"