Virginia Reinburg

French Books of Hours (eBook, PDF)

Making an Archive of Prayer, c.1400-1600

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139227643
• Artikelnr.: 38275707

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.