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Duffy, Eamon: Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570.(Book review)
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June 22, 2007
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Duffy, Eamon Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570 New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 202 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-11714-0 Publication Date: January 2007
Prayer is an important human activity, relied on by many people in all time periods and all places. But it is often an intensely private act, and this makes it hard for historians to study it. Eamon Duffy, one of the leading historians of religion in late medieval and early modern England, seeks to illuminate this elusive topic by looking at surviving books of hours. He is especially interested in their owners' jottings and marginalia--hence the title of his book, Marking the Hours. Duffy bases ...
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