1st Edition
The Monument of Matrones Volume 3 (Lamps 5–7) Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women, Series III, Part One, Volume 6
By Colin B. Atkinson
Copyright 2005
600 Pages
by
Routledge
600 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 Fift Lampe of Virginitie; The Sixt Lampe of Virginitie; The Seuenth Lampe of Virginitie.
Biography
Colin B. Atkinson, Professor Emeritus of English, University of Windsor, Canada and Jo B. Atkinson.
