The Book of Common Prayer
The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662
'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 asthe basis for worship in the USA and elsewhere to the present day.This edition presents the work in three different states: the firs…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-161992-2
- EAN: 9780191619922
- Produktnummer: 13944159
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'141 KB
- Abbildungen: 4 facsimile title pages
Über den Autor
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, and, from October 2012, the University of York. He was a British Academy Exchange Fellow at the Huntington Library, California, in 2007 and held a three-year Major Research Fellowship with the Leverhulme Trust from 2009to 2012.
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