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French books of hours : making an archive of prayer, c.1400-1600
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ISBN: 9781107460065 9781107007215 1107007216 9781139030496 1107460069 9781139232081 1139232088 1139030493 9781139233620 1139233629 9781139230636 1107227674 9781107227675 1139234323 9781139234320 1280485620 9781280485626 1139232843 9781139232845 9786613580603 6613580600 1139230638 9781139230636 1139229176 9781139229173 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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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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Storied places : pilgrim shrines, nature, and history in early modern France
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ISBN: 9781108483117 9781108716390 9781108672795 1108483119 1108716393 1108672795 1108602673 1108613918 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University Press

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Pilgrim shrines were places of healing, holiness, and truth in early modern France. By analyzing the creation of these pilgrim shrines as natural, legendary, and historic places whose authority provided a new foundation for post-Reformation Catholic life, Virginia Reinburg examines the impact of the Reformation and religious wars on French society and the French landscape. Divided into two parts, Part I offers detailed studies of the shrines of Sainte-Reine, Notre-Dame du Puy, Notre-Dame de Garaison, and Notre-Dame de Betharram, showing how nature, antiquity, and images inspired enthusiasm among pilgrims. These chapters also show that the category of 'pilgrim' included a wide variety of motivations, beliefs, and acts. Part II recounts how shrine chaplains authored books employing history, myth, and archives in an attempt to prove that the shrines were authentic, and to show that the truths they exemplified were beyond dispute.

Fragmented devotion : medieval objects from the Schnütgen Museum Cologne
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ISBN: 189285001X Year: 2000 Publisher: Chestnut Hill, Mass. Boston College

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Memory and the Middle Ages
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ISBN: 0964015323 Year: 1995 Publisher: Chestnut Hill, Mass. Boston College Museum of Art

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