Duffy, Eamon: Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570.(Book review) From: History: Review of New Books | Date: June 22, 2007| Author: Fritze, Ronald H. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Heldref Publications. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Duffy, Eamon Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers 1240-1570 New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 202 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-11714-0 Publication Date: January 2007

Prayer is an important human activity, relied on by many people in all time periods and all places. But it is often an intensely private act, and this makes it hard for historians to study it. Eamon Duffy, one of the leading historians of religion in late medieval and early modern England, seeks...

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