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Mary and the Art of Prayer - The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought (Paperback)
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Mary and the Art of Prayer - The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought (Paperback)
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Would you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? In Mary
and the Art of Prayer, Rachel Fulton Brown traces the history of
the medieval practice of praising Mary through the complex of
prayers known as the Hours of the Virgin. More than just a work of
comprehensive historical scholarship, the book asks readers to
immerse themselves in the experience of believing in and praying to
Mary. Mary and the Art of Prayer crosses the boundaries that modern
scholars typically place between observation and experience,
between the world of provable facts and the world of imagination,
suggesting what it would have been like for medieval Christians to
encounter Mary in prayer. Mary and the Art of Prayer opens with a
history of the devotion of the Hours or "Little Office" of the
Virgin. It then guides readers in the practice of saying this
Office, including its invitatory (Ave Maria), antiphons, psalms,
lessons, and prayers. The book works on several levels at once. It
provides a new methodology for thinking about devotion and prayer;
a new appreciation of the scope of and audience for the Hours of
the Virgin; a new understanding of how Mary functions theologically
and devotionally; and a new reading of sources not previously taken
into account. A courageous and moving work, it will transform our
ideas of what scholarship is and what it can accomplish.
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