Essential Works for the Study of Early Modern Women, Series III, Part One, Volume 5
by
Colin B. Atkinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
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...