Mary and the Art of Prayer The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought【電子書籍】[ Rachel Fulton Brown ]

＜p＞Would you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? In ＜em＞Mary and the Art of Prayer,＜/em＞ 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. ＜em＞Mary and the Art of Prayer＜/em＞ 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.＜/p＞ ＜p＞＜em＞Mary and the Art of Prayer＜/em＞ 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 (＜em＞Ave Maria＜/em＞), antiphons, psalms, lessons, and prayers. The book works on seve．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る