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Record Nr.

UNINA9910461087503321

Autore

Reinburg Virginia

Titolo

French books of hours : making an archive of prayer, c. 1400-1600 / / Virginia Reinburg [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2012

ISBN

1-107-22767-4

1-139-23432-3

1-280-48562-0

1-139-23284-3

9786613580603

1-139-23063-8

1-139-22917-6

1-139-03049-3

1-139-23208-8

1-139-23362-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 297 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

242.0944

Soggetti

Books of hours - France

Books and reading - Social aspects - France - History

Books and reading - History

Books and reading - France - History

Books - History - 400-1450

Books - History - 1450-1600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

A social history of the book of hours. Culture and commerce ; Owners and their books ; Prayer book and primer -- An ethnography of prayer. Words and rites ; A fragment of a religion ; Prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Sommario/riassunto

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.