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Relevant Monographs on Books of Hours
In addition to Roger Wieck's Time Sanctified and Painted Prayers, the following books may also prove useful when researching Books of Hours.
The Hours of Henry VIII by Call Number: Q. 745.670944 P877wISBN: 0807614777Publication Date: 2000-12-01
French Books of Hours by
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.
Call Number: 745.67 R274fISBN: 9781107007215Publication Date: 2012
Books of Hours Reconsidered by
For over three hunderd years, more Books of Hours were made than any other type of book, even the Bible. From c. 1225, when the first Books of Hours began to appear, to 1571, when during the Counter-Reformation Pope Pius V prohibited the use of all existing Books of Hours, nearly every European family of a certain means owned a Book of Hours. Books of Hours Reconsidered presents recent research on this medieval bestseller in twenty-one essays written by international scholars. The scholarship in this volume helps instill Books of Hours with new life and give them new meaning at a moment when interest in Books of Hours is on the rise.
Call Number: Q. 745.67 B64439ISBN: 9781905375943Publication Date: 2013
Relevant Chapters on Books of Hours
A History of Illuminated Manuscripts by Call Number: Q. 745.6709 D365H 1994ISBN: 0714829498Publication Date: 1994Chapter: “Books for Everybody”
Women and the Book by Call Number: 809.89287 W8421ISBN: 0802042163Publication Date: 1997-04-19Chapter: “Women and Books of Hours”The Culture of Print by
Call Number: 686.209 US1:EISBN: 0745605753Publication Date: 1989Chapter: “Books of Hours and the Reading Habits of the Later Middle Ages”