Books of hours reconsidered

HINDMAN Sandra, MARROW James H. Books of hours reconsidered London : H. Miller publishers, 2013, 532 p. ISBN 978-1-905375-94-3 EUR 863 Résumé éditeur : For over three hunderd years, more Books of Hours were made than any other type of book, even the Bible. From c. 1225, when the first Books of Hours began to appear, to 1571, when during the Counter-Reformation Pope Pius V prohibited the use of all existing Books of Hours, nearly every European family of a certain means owned a Book of Hours..