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|a Reinburg, Virginia
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|a French books of hours
|b making an archive of prayer, c. 1400-1600
|c Virginia Reinburg
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|a Cambridge
|b Cambridge University Press
|c 2012
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|a xiv, 297 pages
|b digital
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|a 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
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|a Books of hours / France
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|a Books and reading / Social aspects / France / History
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|a Books and reading / History
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|a Books and reading / France / History
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|a Books / History / 400-1450
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|a Books / History / 1450-1600
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|a Cambridge Books Online
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|u https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139030496
|x Verlag
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|a 242.0944
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|a 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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