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Religion Helen Castor is moved by the stories of individual faith hidden in medieval books of hours
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Marking the Hours: English People and Their Prayers, 1240-1570
BY EAMON DUFFY
YALE, pounds 19.99, 201 pp T pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.25 p&p)
0870 428 4115
During the long months of Thomas More's incarceration in the Tower
for his refusal to acquiesce in the religious fall-out from Henry
VIII's matrimonial rearrangements, he took refuge in the pages of a
well-thumbed book: his 'Book of Hours', a collection of Latin prayers
and psalms arranged around the liturgical 'hours' (matins, prime,
terce, sext, nones, vespers and compline) into which each day's
worship was divided.
We know that he did ...
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