1st Edition
The Monument of Matrones Volume 1 (Lamps 1–3) Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women, Series III, Part One, Volume 4
By Colin B. Atkinson
Copyright 2005
496 Pages
by
Routledge
496 Pages
by
Routledge
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As its compiler Thomas Bentley writes, The Monument of Matrones (1582) is a 'domesticall librarie plentifullie stored and replenished'. This 1500-page book is one of a long line of books of secular prayer reaching from the Middle Ages through the sixteenth-century English compilations of prayer and meditations that grew out of the English Reformation. It is unique because it is addressed... Read more
Contents: Preface by the general editors; Introductory note; The First Lampe of Virginitie; The Second Lampe of Virginitie; The Third Lampe of Virginite; Appendix.
Biography
Colin B. Atkinson, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Windsor, Canada and Jo B. Atkinson
