Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England.(Book Review)

From: The Modern Language Review | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Todd, Richard | Copyright information

Common Prayer: The Language of Public Devotion in Early Modern England. By RAMIE TARGOFF. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press. 2001. xiii+162 pp. $40 (pbk $17). ISBN 0-226-78968-3 (pbk 0-226-78969-1).

This is both a handsomely produced and a handsomely pedigreed book. It comes with endorsements from, and acknowledgements to, leading scholars of early modern English literature, and is dedicated to one of the best-known and most influential of them, Stephen Greenbl...

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