The Book of Hours
Author: Kevin Jackson
Publisher: Abrams Press
Published: 2007-09-06
Total Pages: 232
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn literary anthology of writing about time, organised by time of day.
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Books of Hours
Author: Editors of Phaidon Press
Publisher: Phaidon Press
Published: 1996-06-13
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780714834641
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA miniature edition of some of the most exquisite medieval manuscripts.
Painted Prayers
Author: Roger S. Wieck
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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".
The Book of Hours
Author: John P. Harthan
Publisher: Random House Value Publishing
Published: 1982
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Book of Hours
Author: Davis Bunn
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2009-07-20
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1418514381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCastle Priory is a crumbling Oxfordshire mansion, one Brian Blackstone's wife considered a place of extraordinary enchantment. But for Brian there is no enchantment, only the burden of trying to honor Sarah's dying wish that he hold onto the property. With the local doctor, Cecilia Keeble, Brian begins to explore the mysteries of the old estate. In the process he discovers a medieval secret which offers a key to renew his spirit and heal his broken heart. The power of prayer reaches through the centuries in a surprising and mysterious way…
The Book of Hours
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0810118882
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis a complete translation of Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours that restores to the English-speaking reader a critical work in the development of a significant figure in 20th-century German poetry. Conveying an almost mystical conception of the relationship between God, the human being and nature, The Book of Hours (Das Stundenbuch, first published in 1905) is a series of intimate prayers written as if by a Russian monk turned painter - writings that bring to bear the profound influence of Rilke's journeys to Russia and Italy at the turn of the century.
Rainer Maria Rilke's The Book of Hours
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Camden House
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1571133801
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Book of hours, written in three bursts between 1899-1903, is Rilke's most formative work, covering a crucial period in his rapid ascent from fin-de-siecle epigone to distinctive modern voice. The poems are crucial documents of Rilke's development, from his tour around Russia with Lou Andreas-Salome, through his hasty marriage to Clara Westhoff in the artists' community of Worpswede, to his turn toward the urban modernity of Paris. Rilke assumes the persona of an artist-monk undertaking the Romantics' journey into the self, speaking to God as part transcendent deity, part needy neighbor. Echoes of his juvenile style persist, yet by the end of the book the influence of the sculptor Rodin is discernible in the distinctive idiom of urbanity, in the terminology of "things," and in Rilke's turn to the everyday world around him."--Jacket flap.
Poems from the Book of Hours
Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 2018-01-23
Total Pages: 58
ISBN-13: 0811227596
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the most powerful poetry collections of the twentieth century, now in a beautiful new edition Although The Book of Hours is the work of Rilke’s youth, it contains the germ of his mature convictions. Written as spontaneously received prayers, these poems celebrate a God who is not the Creator of the Universe but rather humanity itself and, above all, that most intensely conscious part of humanity, the artist. Babette Deutsch’s classic translations—born from “the pure desire to sing what the poet sang” (Ursula K. Le Guin)—capture the rich harmony and suggestive imagery of the originals, transporting the reader to new heights of inspiration and musicality.
Music and Performance in the Book of Hours
Author: Michael Alan Anderson
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2022-06-14
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 1000591956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study uncovers the musical foundations and performance suggestions of books of hours, guides to prayer that were the most popular and widespread books of the late Middle Ages. Exploring a variety of musical genres and sections of books of hours with musical implications, this book presents a richly textured sound world gleaned from dozens of extant manuscript sources from fifteenth-century France. It offers the first overview of the musical content of these handbooks to liturgy and devotional prayer, together with cues that show scribal awareness for the articulation of sacred plainchants. Although books of hours lack musical notation, this survey elucidates the full range of musical genres and styles suggested both within and beyond the liturgical offices prescribed in books of hours. Privileging sound and ritual enactment in the experience of the hours, the survey complements studies of visual imagery that have dominated the category. The book’s interdisciplinary approach within a musical context, and beautiful full-color illustrations, will attract not only specialists in musicology, liturgy, and late medieval studies, but also those more broadly interested in the history of the book, memory, performance studies, and art history.
The Book of Hours and the Body
Author: Sherry C. M. Lindquist
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-02-29
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 1003822118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores our corporeal connections to the past by considering what three theoretical approaches - somaesthetics, posthumanism, and the uncanny - may reveal about both premodern and postmodern terms of embodiment. It takes as its point of departure a selection of fifteenth-century northern European Books of Hours - evocative objects designed at once to inscribe social status, to strengthen religious commitment, to entertain, to stimulate emotions, and to encourage discomfiting self-scrutiny. Studying their kaleidoscopically strange, moving, humorous, disturbing, and imaginative pages not only enables a window into relationships among bodies, images, and things in the past but also in our own internet era, where surprisingly popular memes drawn from such manuscripts constitute a part of our own visual culture. In negotiating theoretical, post-theoretical, and historical concerns, this book aims to contribute to an emerging and much-needed intersectional social history of art. It will be of interest to scholars working in art history, medieval studies, Renaissance/early modern studies, gender studies, the history of the book, posthumanism, aesthetics, and the body.
