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The Book of Hours was a 'best-seller' in medieval and early modern Europe, the era's most commonly produced and owned book. This interdisciplinary study explores its increasing popularity and prestige, offering a full account of the Book of Hours as a book - how it was acquired, how it was read to guide prayer and teach literacy and what it meant to its owners as a personal possession. Based on the study of over 500 manuscripts and printed books from France, Virginia Reinburg combines a social history of the Book of Hours with an ethnography of prayer. Approaching the practice of prayer as both speech and ritual, she argues that a central part of the Book of Hours' appeal for lay people was its role as a bridge between the liturgy and the home. Reinburg describes how the Book of Hours shaped religious practice through the ways in which it was used.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Christianity

• Full title: French Books of Hours
• Author: Virginia Reinburg
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9781107460065
• ISBN: 1107460069
• ID: 02785730
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Weight: 450 g
• Dimensions: 230 × 152 × 14 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. November 2014

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