Author: Editors of Phaidon Press
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 1996-06-13
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780714834641
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A miniature edition of some of the most exquisite medieval manuscripts.
Author: Roger S. Wieck
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book features 107 of the finest examples of illuminated pages from medieval and Renaissance Books of Hours. Roger Wieck's comprehensive text introduces the Book of Hours -- a "bestseller" for three hundred years -- to the general reader, discussing its iconography, the artists who illuminated this genre, and its role as a religious text in the lives of its owners. As a collection of both stirring words and inspiring images, the Book of Hours thus comprised a series of "painted prayers".
Author: Marianne Boruch
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 106
ISBN-13: 1556593856
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marianne Boruch's patience "allows her to see what is there with a jeweler's sense of facet and flaw" (Poetry magazine).
Author: William G. Storey
Publisher: LiturgyTrainingPublications
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9781568542782
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →William Storey, compiler of some of the best-loved prayer books of our time, has selected the most beautiful elements from the full Liturgy of the Hours and other sources to create a simpler book for Morning and Evening Prayer. Intended for individuals and groups who want to taste the venerable tradition of using scripture to offer praise, thanksgiving and intercessions at dawn and sunset, this new book provides a four-week cycle of prayer. Each "hour" includes a psalm, a canticle and a brief reading from the Old or New Testament, interspersed with prayers that echo the biblical poetry. An introduction explains how to use the book, and supplementary sections offer an order for night prayer, basic prayers, hymns and additional scripture readings.
Author: Kevin Young
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2015-10-13
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0375711880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A decade after the sudden and tragic loss of his father, we witness the unfolding of grief. “In the night I brush / my teeth with a razor,” he tells us, in one of the collection’s piercing two-line poems. Capturing the strange silence of bereavement (“Not the storm / but the calm / that slays me”), Kevin Young acknowledges, even celebrates, life’s passages, his loss transformed and tempered in a sequence about the birth of his son: in “Crowning,” he delivers what is surely one of the most powerful birth poems written by a man, describing “her face / full of fire, then groaning your face / out like a flower, blood-bloom,/ crocused into air.” Ending this book of both birth and grief, the gorgeous title sequence brings acceptance, asking “What good/are wishes if they aren’t / used up?” while understanding “How to listen / to what’s gone.” Young’s frank music speaks directly to the reader in these elemental poems, reminding us that the right words can both comfort us and enlarge our understanding of life’s mysteries.
Author: Kurt Barstow
Publisher: Getty Publications
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780892363704
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An illustrated treatise on a book of hours created between 1469 and 1473 in Ferrara, Italy.
Author: William G. Storey
Publisher: Loyola Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0829425845
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Storey's new compilation of "The Liturgy of the Hours" is presented in language that is both dignified and contemporary, crafted in accordance with Vatican II's liturgical emphasis and promotion of scriptural prayer.
Author: Sandra Hindman
Publisher: Harvey Miller
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905375943
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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. Books of Hours Reconsidered presents recent research on this medieval bestseller in twenty-one essays written by international scholars. The scholarship in this volume helps instill Books of Hours with new life and give them new meaning at a moment when interest in Books of Hours is on the rise.
Author: Forward Movement
Publisher: Forward Movement
Published: 2002-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780880282406
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Pray without ceasing with this compact edition of the Daily Office complete with prayers and psalms for one week. This beautiful little book, excerpted from The Book of Common Prayer, will enable anyone to say the hours every day: Morning Prayer, Noonday Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline. Perfect for prayer and worship at all times and in all places. Hour by Hour is a thoughtful gift - the cover is deluxe soft leather, and it's packaged in a small white gift box.