Leylim Erenel

Ad usum anglie: English Books of Hours Made in Bruges and Ghent, 1470-1520

Supervisor: Professor Susie Nash

Advisor: Professor Alixe Bovey

Central to late medieval lay devotion, books of hours were demanded by the English in numbers that far exceeded the local supply, resulting in a steady import of ‘Sarum horae’ – books of hours made for English use – from the Flemish centres of Bruges and Ghent throughout the fifteenth century. Focusing on a substantially unexplored group of Sarum horae produced from 1470 to 1520, my research seeks to document and analyse their production in Bruges and Ghent and their trade with England against a backdrop of immense stylistic and technological change, while investigating their ownership and usage on the eve of England’s greatest devotional transformation.