Marking the Hours English People and Their Prayers, 1240–1570 Eamon Duffy Yale University Press, $35, 208 pp. Today, every decent-sized museum displays one or two examples of those lavish medieval compendiums known as Books of Hours. With their beautiful illuminations and finely rubricated calligraphy, these books continue to be prized by collectors, and many noncollector (...)
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