Prayer Books and Piety in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe / Gebetbucher und Frommigkeit in Spatmittelalter und Fruher Neuzeit

This collected volume is dedicated to the role of prayer books in lay piety in medieval and early modern contexts. Instead of focusing on individual examples, it places them within the broader genre of devotional literature and considers them in connection with prevailing cultural, religious and artistic developments, taking into account the Reformation, the printing press and growing interest in ...