Marking the Hours: English People and their Prayers 1240-1570

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Du ff y, Eamon, Marking the Hours: English People and their Prayers 1240- 1570 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), xiv + 201 pp., £19.99, ISBN 0 300 11714 0. In this book (originally the Riddell Lectures for 2002), Eamon Du ff y returns to a topic he surveyed extensively a decade before in The Stripping of the Altars : the primers or Books of Hours which were a vital compo- nent of lay piety in pre-Reformation England, particularly after the advent of print dramatically widened their social di ff usion. Yet Marking the Hours represents much more

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