Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 297 Seiten) :
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme.
ISBN:
978-1-139-03049-6
Content:
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
Note:
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
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 978-1-107-00721-5
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-107-46006-5
Language:
English
Subjects:
Theology
Keywords:
Stundenbuch
;
Buchmalerei
;
Illustration
;
Gebet
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781139030496
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139030496
Author information:
Reinburg, Virginia 1954-
