Painted Prayers by Roger S. Wieck This volume feature some of the finest examples of illuminated manuscript pages from medieval and Renaissance Books of Hours. A "bestseller" for three hundred years, the Book of Hours was a devotional work that almost everyone owned and virtually knew by heart. Medieval life -- and death -- cannot begin to be understood without examining this collection of stirring words and inspiring pages. Painted Prayers introduces the Book of Hours to the general reader, discussing its iconography, the artists who illuminated this genre, and its roles as a religious text in the lives of its owners. PA, ISBN: 0807614572 $25.00 (Can: $37.50)