Time Sanctified: The Book of Hours in Medieval Art and Life

by Roger S. Wieck

This collection of seventy-four poems includes a brief summary of the life of the nineteenth-century English poet

Genres: History, Medieval, Art

230 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 1988

About the author

Roger S. Wieck is the Melvin R. Seiden Curator and Department Head of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. He has also held curatorial positions at the Walters Art Museum and the Houghton Library of Harvard University.

Reviews

[Elena · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25 stars

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m not sure what I was expecting from this book, but it was ok. It was interesting to learn that books of hours had so much basis in the veneration of the Virgin Mary.

[Leigh · Rating 5 out of 5]

Not a book I would ordinarily read but it is on the reading list for fabulous recent course I took at the Morgan Library "Introduction to Illustrated Medieval Manuscripts." In fact the author was the extremely impressive instructor for the course. So it was perfect background for that. Of course reading about these great treasures is a pleasure, second only to actually seeing them!