The Hargrett Hours’s French prayer that runs from folios 54r through 55v (and which I will refer to as “Tres piteux sire”) has been one…
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The Beaufort Beauchamp Book of Hours (British Library MS A XVIII, hereafter referred to as BBOH) is an impressive example of an English royal books…
I’m interested in my research to find if there is a specific reason for repetition in books of hours and Catholic prayers from the…
Books of Hours are primarily anthologies of prayers. They are handbooks for how to address the Divine, providing tried-and-true scripts for how to catch His…
It’s International Literacy Day! And the idea of that day that cuts to the quick of this course’s central problematic: how could medieval laypeople actually…