The Book of Common Prayer : : A Biography / / Alan Jacobs.
While many of us are familiar with such famous words as, "Dearly beloved, we are gathered together here. . ." or "Ashes to ashes, dust to dust," we may not know that they originated with The Book of Common Prayer, which first appeared in 1549. Like the words of the King James Bib...
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©2014 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
Series: | Lives of Great Religious Books ;
18 |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 6 halftones. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Chronology
- Figures
- A Note on Texts
- Introduction. The Archbishop in His Library
- 1. One Book for One Country
- 2. Revision, Banishment, Restoration
- 3. Becoming Venerable
- 4. The Book in the Social World
- 5. Objects, Bodies, and Controversies
- 6. The Pressures of the Modern
- 7. Many Books for Many Countries
- Appendix. The Prayer Book and Its Printers
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index