Research Guides: Medieval Time: Time and Devotion

Overview

Intended as an overview of available secondary works on liturgical time. Grouped into the following categories:

Divine Office and Breviaries
Books of Hours
Women and Books of Devotion

Divine Office and Breviaries

The Divine Office in the Latin Middle Ages by Margot E. Fassler (Editor); Rebecca A. Baltzer (Editor)
Call Number: ML3080 .D58 2000
Allerseelen : Studien zu Liturgie und Brauchtum eines Totengedenktages in der abendländischen Kirche by Jürgen Bärsch
Call Number: BV170 .L5513 Bd. 90
The Liturgy of the Hours in East and West: the origins of the divine office and its meaning for today by Robert Taft
Call Number: BX2000 .T34 1986
The influence of the synagogue upon the divine office by C. W. Dugmore
Call Number: BV185 .D93 1944
The Master of the Breviary of Jean Sans Peur and the Limbourgs.
Call Number: ND3365.A1 M4
Located in the Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
The breviary through the centuries by Sister David Mary (Translator)
Call Number: BX2000 .S283 1962
Sacred Time in Early Christian Ireland by Patricia M. Rumsey
Call Number: BX2600 .R86 2007
The Typikon Decoded: a explanation of Byzantine liturgical practice by J. Getcha; Paul Meyendorff
Call Number: BX350 .G4813 2012
Les Commentaires byzantins de la divine liturgie du VIIe au XVe siècle by René Bornert
Call Number: BX350 .B63
Daily prayer in Christian Spain : a study of the Mozarabic Office by Graham Woolfenden
Call Number: BX5141.A1 A6 vol.77
Daily Liturgical Prayer: origins and theology by Gregory W. Woolfenden
Call Number: BV199.D3 W66 2004
Introduction to the English Monastic Breviaries by J. B. L. Tolhurst
Call Number: BX2000 .T65 1993
Drinking from the Hidden Fountain: a patristic breviary by Thomas Spidlik
Call Number: BX2178 .B7413 1994
El breviario de Martín el Humano : un códice de lujo para el Monasterio de Poblet by Josefina Planas Badenas
Call Number: ND3365.M26 P53 200
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref

Brigittine Breviary

Brigittine Breviary, Northern Netherlands, 1st half of the 15th century
British Library Ms Egerton 3271, fol. 299v

Books of Hours

Houghton Library MS Richardson 42, f. 12

Time Sanctified: the book of hours in Medieval art and life by Roger S. Wieck
Call Number: ND3363.A1 W543 2001
Painted Prayers: the book of hours in medieval and Renaissance art by Roger S. Wieck
Call Number: ND3363.A1 W54 1997
Book of Hours of Johannete Ravenelle and the Parisian Book Illumination Around 1400 by Eva Lindqvist Sandgren
Call Number: N25 .F5 v.28
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
The Book of Hours: a historical survey and commentary by John Harthan
Call Number: ND3363.A1 H37 1977b
The Bedford Hours: the making of a medieval masterpiece by Eberhard Konig
Call Number: ND3363.B37 K6613 2007
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Distribution of Labor: the illuminators of the Hours of Catherine of Cleves and their workshop by Robert G. Calkins
Call Number: ND3363.C3 C34
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Picturing prayer : the Book of Hours in the Middle Ages
Call Number: ND3363.A1 P53 2006
French Books of Hours: making an archive of prayer, c. 1400-1600 by Virginia Reinburg
Call Number: ND3363.A1 R45 2012
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
Marking the Hours: English people and their prayers 1240-1570 by Eamon Duffy
Call Number: BX2080 .D84 2006
The Art of the Book: its place in medieval worship by Margaret M. Manion (Editor); Bernard J. Muir (Editor)
Call Number: BR117 .A78 1998

Women and Devotional Books

Art, Identity, and Devotion in Fourteenth Century England by Kathryn A. Smith
Call Number: ND3363.A1 S55 2003
ISBN: 0802039200
Publication Date: 2003-12-27
Examines the De Lisle hours of Margaret de Beauchamp, the De Bois hours (Dubois hours) of Hawisia de Bois, and the Neville of Hornby hours of Isabel de Byron.
Virtual Pilgrimages in the Covent by Kathryn M. Rudy
Call Number: BX2323 .R83 2011
ISBN: 9782503541037
Publication Date: 2011
Walking in Christ's footsteps' was a devotional ideal in the late Middle Ages. However, few nuns and religious women had the freedom or the funding to take the journey in the flesh. Instead they invented and adjusted devotional exercises to visit the sites virtually.
Women and the Book by Lesley Smith, Jane H. Taylor, eds.
Call Number: PN682.W6 W66 1997
ISBN: 0802042163
Publication Date: 1997
Anthology includes "Women and Books of Hours" by Sandra Penketh.
Women's Books of Hours in Medieval England by Charity Scott-Stokes
Call Number: BX2080 .W66 2006
ISBN: 1843840707
Publication Date: 2006
Selected texts translated from Latin, Anglo-Norman French and Middle English with introduction and interpretive essay.
Women, Manuscripts and Identity in Northern Europe, 1350-1550 by Joni M. Hand
Call Number: ND3125 .H36 2013
ISBN: 9781409450238
Publication Date: 2013
Women, Reading, and Piety in Late Medieval England by Mary C. Erler
Call Number: BR746 .E75 2002
ISBN: 0521812216
Publication Date: 2002