The Book of Common Prayer : a biography /

Show other versions (1)

"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...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jacobs, Alan, 1958-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton and Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2013]
Series:Lives of great religious books.
Subjects:
Church of England. > Book of common prayer > History.
Book of common prayer (Church of England)
Anglican Communion > Liturgy > Texts > History.
Communion anglicane > Liturgie > Textes > Histoire.
RELIGION > Christian Rituals & Practice > Worship & Liturgy.
RELIGION > Institutions & Organizations.
RELIGION > Christianity > Anglican.
Anglican Communion > Liturgy > Texts
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

Similar Items