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Thousands of books of hours made between 1250 and 1700 survive today in libraries and museums, testament to their popularity in their heyday, especially in northern Europe; from the fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century, more books of hours were made than any other type of book. No two are exactly alike, although they share one group of ...
English translation of a variety of texts from women's books of hours, with introduction, notes, and an interpretive essay. The book of hours is said to have been the most popular...
This introduction offers background information designed to put the book of hours in context, followed by discussion of the standard and supplementary textual contents, the visual aspect and music, and some observations on the original languages of the texts.
Books of hours ( Latin: horae) are Christian prayer books, which were used to pray the canonical hours. [2] The use of a book of hours was especially popular in the Middle Ages, and as a result, they are the most common type of surviving medieval illuminated manuscript.
This essay starts with observations on women's lives in England in the late Middle Ages. It goes on to consider their ownership of books of hours, their use of the books, and their possible participation in the writing of a few of the texts. Finally it returns to St Anne and the Virgin Mary.
Book Of Hours Essay. 176 Words 1 Page. Book of Hours were private prayer book popular in the thirteenth century among wealthy patrons. These contained special prayers which were to be recited at the eight canonical devotional “hours” between morning and night.
In this essay, using. publicly accessible scholarship, I explore The Book of Hours, a type of devotional publication. popular from the mid-13th century to the 15th century containing prayers, psalms and other texts. people carried with them. Specifically I will be looking at one Book of Hours, a manuscript from.
