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was "well worth its (comparatively) modest price and deserves to be referred to by specialists and non specialists alike for years to come". Irwin found the brief coverage of monastic worship possibly wanting while suggesting that some redundancy between chapters could have been removed. He
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Rosengarten, Richard A. (December 2007). "The Oxford
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Craft, Carolyn M. (February 1, 2006). "The Oxford
History of Christian Worship. Oxford Univ. 2006. 960p. ed. by Geoffrey Wainwright & Karen B. Westerfield Tucker. illus. index. ISBN 0-19-513886-4 . $ 55. REL".
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