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  The Book of Common Prayer: The Texts of 1549, 1559, and 1662 (Hardback) Edited by Brian Cummings

  

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  Short Description for The Book of Common PrayerThis unique edition of the Book of Common Prayer includes the texts of three different versions, 1549, 1559, and 1662, to provide a panorama of the history of ritual in England from the Reformation to the present day. The first edition for the common reader, with full notes and introduction, this is one of the seminal texts of human experience.
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  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Published: 01 November 2011
  • Format: Hardback 896 pages
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  • Categories: Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800 | Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700 | Church History | Christian Prayerbooks | Aspects Of Religion (non-Christian)
  • ISBN 13: 9780199207176 ISBN 10: 0199207178
  • Sales rank: 42,186

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• 'In the midst of life we are in death' The words of the Book of Common Prayer have permeated deep into the English language all over the world. For nearly 500 years, and for countless people, it has provided a background fanfare for a marriage or a funeral march at a burial. Yet this familiarity also hides a violent and controversial history. When it was first produced the Book of Common Prayer provoked riots and rebellion, and it was banned before being translated into a host of global languages and adopted as the basis for worship in the USA and elsewhere to the present day. This edition presents the work in three different states: the first edition of 1549, which brought the Reformation into people's homes; the Elizabethan prayer book of 1559, familiar to Shakespeare and Milton; and the edition of 1662, which embodies the religious temper of the nation down to modern times. Far from being a book for the religious only, the Book of Common Prayer is one of the seminal texts of human experience and a manual of everyday ritual: a book to live, love, and die to.