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Copy of Francis in and of Assisi - Isabella d'Este and Leonardo - Medieval Inns in England

Medieval Histories 

18.10.2013

Rogier van der Weyden - The Lamentation

Book of Hours

Books of Hours were private prayer books, which filled the need for the medieval lay public in search of a devotional life akin to what clerics experienced, but without taking actual vows.

The contents grew out of the psalter but included a mixed variety of other types of material like, hymns, lessons, biblical readings, calendars etc.

Most Books of Hours, however, were also used for personal notations and scribbles marking births, marriages, deaths etc. Many were passed down through generations.

This week we bring you news about an upcoming sale of Books of Hours, a very early Book of Hours from Troyes and a new book which invites us to reconsider these bestsellers...

Book of Hours c. 1260
Medieval Treasure: Book of Hours from Troyes c. 1260 for sale at Les Enluminures...Read online.

Book of Hours for Sale
Les Enluminures not only presents Books of Hours for sale. They also exhibit them in the Gallery in New York...Read online.

Book of Hours Reconsidered
New book provides essential studies on the production, use, and evolution of Book of Hours...Read online.

Other News...

sutton hoo burial reconstruction

Rogier van der Weyden

EXHIBITION: The heritage of Rogier van der Weyden. Painting in Brussels 1450-1520...

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St. Mary's Undercropt - the crypt of St Stephens's

St. Stephen's

New interdisciplinary research project aims to research St. Stephen's Chapel - the famous royal chapel at Westminster...

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Legacy of icon oclasm

Legacy of Iconoclasm

NEW BOOK: Religious War and the Relic Landscape of Tours, Blois and Vendôme, 1550-1750...

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sutton hoo burial reconstruction

Anglo-Saxon Graves

NEW BOOK: Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the Sixth and Seventh Centuries AD...

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