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Wandering Mind
What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction
Inbunden, 2023
290 kr
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The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We fantasise about escaping our screens. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into …
How to Focus
A Monastic Guide for an Age of Distraction
Av John Cassian, Jamie Kreiner
Inbunden, 2024
169 kr
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How you can learn to focus like a monk without living like oneDistraction isn’t a new problem. We’re also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up everything to focus on God, yet they still struggled to keep the demons of …
Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West
Inbunden, 2020
442 kr
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An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophy From North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture in the early medieval period. Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiquitous …
The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom
Inbunden, 2014
1677 kr
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This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political …
The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom
Häftad, 2018
574 kr
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This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political …
Wandering Mind
What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction
Häftad, 2024
186 kr
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Although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. As historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates in The Wandering Mind, their attempts to stretch the mind out to God—to continuously contemplate the divine order and its ethical …
