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Marking The Hours
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 their lives. Manuscript prayers biographical jottings affectionate messages autographs and pious paste-ins often crowd the margins fly-leaves and blank spaces of such books. From these sometimes clumsy jottings viewed by generations of librarians and art historians as blemishes at best vandalism at worst Duffy teases out precious clues to the private thoughts and public contexts of their owners and insights into the times in which they lived and prayed. His
analysis has a special relevance for the history of women since women feature very prominently among the identifiable owners and users of the medieval Book of Hours. Books of Hours range from lavish illuminated manuscripts worth a kings ransom to mass-produced and sparsely illustrated volumes costing a few shillings or pence. Some include customized prayers and pictures requested by the purchaser and others handed down from one family member to another bear the often poignant traces of a familys history over several generations. Duffy places these volumes in the context of religious and social change above all the Reformation discusses their significance to Catholics and Protestants and describes the controversy they inspired under successive Tudor regimes. He looks closely at several
special volumes including the cherished "Book of Hours" that Sir Thomas More kept with him in the Tower of London as he awaited execution."
analysis has a special relevance for the history of women since women feature very prominently among the identifiable owners and users of the medieval Book of Hours. Books of Hours range from lavish illuminated manuscripts worth a kings ransom to mass-produced and sparsely illustrated volumes costing a few shillings or pence. Some include customized prayers and pictures requested by the purchaser and others handed down from one family member to another bear the often poignant traces of a familys history over several generations. Duffy places these volumes in the context of religious and social change above all the Reformation discusses their significance to Catholics and Protestants and describes the controversy they inspired under successive Tudor regimes. He looks closely at several
special volumes including the cherished "Book of Hours" that Sir Thomas More kept with him in the Tower of London as he awaited execution."
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