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The wandering mind : what Medieval monks tell us about distraction

Title
The wandering mind : what Medieval monks tell us about distraction / Jamie Kreiner.
Author
Kreiner, Jamie, 1982-
Publication
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]

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Description
274 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
  • "A revelatory account of how Christian monks identified distraction as a fundamental challenge, and how their efforts to defeat it can inform ours, more than a millennium later"--
  • "The digital era is beset by distraction: we fantasize about escaping our screen, and recapturing a world with less noise. Kreiner demonstrates that the attempts of monks to contemplate the divine order and its ethical requirements were all-consuming, and their battles against distraction were never-ending. She believes that we can learn something about our own distractedness by looking closely at monks' strenuous efforts to concentrate. The result is an account of human fallibility and ingenuity that bridges a distant era and our own."--
Subject
  • To 1500
  • Distraction (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500
  • Monasticism and religious orders > History > Early church, ca. 30-600
  • Monasticism and religious orders > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500
  • Distraction (Psychology)
  • Distraction (Psychology) > Religious aspects > Christianity
  • Monasticism and religious orders > Early church
  • Monasticism and religious orders > Middle Ages
  • Monasticism and religious orders
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction -- The world -- Community -- Body -- Books -- Memory -- Mind -- Conclusion.
Call Number
JFE 23-1488
ISBN
  • 9781631498053
  • 1631498053
LCCN
  • 2022049668
  • 40031560115
OCLC
1320809727
Author
Kreiner, Jamie, 1982- author. Author
Title
The wandering mind : what Medieval monks tell us about distraction / Jamie Kreiner.
Publisher
New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Edition
First edition.
Type of Content
text
still image
cartographic image
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Chronological Term
To 1500
Other Form:
ebook version : 9781631498060
Other Standard Identifier
40031560115
Research Call Number
JFE 23-1488
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