 | Mary and the Art of Prayer: The Hours of the Virgin in Medieval Christian Life and Thought Subjects: Catholic Church. Little office of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Mary Blessed Virgin Saint -- Prayers and devotions; Mary Blessed Virgin Saint -- Devotion to; Spiritual life -- Christianity -- History; Would you like to learn to pray like a medieval Christian? 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. Mary and the Art of Prayer asks readers to immerse themselves in the experience of believing in and praying to Mary. Rachel Fulton Brown is associate professor of history at the University of Chicago. She is the author of From Judgment to Passion: Devotion to Christ and the Virgin Mary, 800-1200 (2002) and coeditor of History in the Comic Mode: Medieval Communities and the Matter of Person (2007), both from Columbia University Press. |
