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Article: Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570.(Book review)
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- Church History
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- December 1, 2007
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Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570. By Eamon Duffy. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2006. xiv + 202 pp. $35.00 cloth.
Eamon Duffy's newest book, Marking the Hours, lends new meanings to the definition of a "used book." In the history of medieval prayer, Books of Hours were among the most widely used Latin devotional texts. Their popularity is attested to by the large number, almost 800, of extant manuscripts. Thousands of printed texts were also produced from the late fifteenth century to the 1570s. These book were regularly consulted as devotional aids marking the liturgical "hours" of Matins, Prime, Vespers, and so on, ...