"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"--

Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Kreiner, Jamie 1982- (Author)
Format:	Map
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY Liveright Publishing Corporation [2023]
Edition:	First edition
Subjects:	Geschichte 600-1500 Ablenkung Mönchtum Ordensleben 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 RELIGION / Christianity / General To 1500 History
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
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."
Physical Description:	274 Seiten Illustrationen, Karte
ISBN:	9781631498053 1631498053 9781324094449 1324094443