Virginia Reinburg

French Books of Hours

Making an Archive of Prayer, c. 1400 1600

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How was the Book of Hours created and used as a book and what did it mean to its owners?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 607g
• ISBN-13: 9781107007215
• ISBN-10: 1107007216
• Artikelnr.: 34570768

Autorenporträt

Virginia Reinburg is an Associate Professor of History at Boston College, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. A Social History of the Book of Hours: Prologue to Part I
1. Culture and commerce
2. Owners and their books
3. Prayer book and primer
Part II. An Ethnography of Prayer: Prologue to Part II
4. Words and rites
5. A fragment of a religion
6. Prayer to the Virgin Mary
Conclusion
Bibliography.