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The Book of Common Prayer : A Biography /

"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 B...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jacobs, Alan, 1958-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton and Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • The archbishop in his library
  • One book for one country
  • Revision, banishment, restoration
  • Becoming venerable
  • The book in the social world
  • Objects, bodies, and controversies
  • The pressures of the modern
  • Many books for many countries
  • The prayer book and its printers.