For those who have not yet seen it, Eamon Duffy's new Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers (New Haven: Yale UP, 2006), is a richly-illustrated move into the field of the material culture of the book. The result of the 2002 Riddell Lectures, the book connects familiar with less familiar images and ties our knowledge of the Reformation into the ways in which the owners of books of hours used them before, during and after the Reformation. Duffy connects his scholarly knowhow with a readable style that will be accessible to scholars and lay readers alike.
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