The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 - Couverture rigide

 
9780199207176: The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662
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ISBN 10 : 0199207178 ISBN 13 : 9780199207176
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2011

Synopsis

'In the midst of life we are in death' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiarity also hides a violent and controversial history. When it was first produced the Book of Common Prayer provoked riots and rebellion, and it was banned before being translated into a host of global languages and adopted as the basis for worship in the USA and elsewhere to the present day. This edition presents the work in three different states: the first edition of 1549, which brought the Reformation into people's homes; the Elizabethan prayer book of 1559, familiar to Shakespeare and Milton; and the edition of 1662, which embodies the religious temper of the nation down to modern times. Far from being a book for the religious only, the Book of Common Prayer is one of the seminal texts of human experience and a manual of everyday ritual: a book to live, love, and die to.

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À propos de l?auteur

Brian Cummings received his BA at Cambridge University, where he also took his PhD under the supervision of the poet Geoffrey Hill and the church historian Eamon Duffy. He was previously a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge before moving to Sussex. He was a British Academy Exchange Fellow at the Huntington Library, California, in 2007 and is currently a research professor holding a three-year Major Research Fellowship with the Leverhulme Trust (2009-12).

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Éditeur
Oxford University Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0199207178
ISBN 13 
9780199207176
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
896
Éditeur
Cummings Brian
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780199645206: The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662

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ISBN 10 :  0199645205 ISBN 13 :  9780199645206
Editeur : Oxford University Press, 2013
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