The wandering mind

what Medieval monks tell us about distraction

The wandering mind

what Medieval monks tell us about distraction
Jamie Kreiner
Book - 2023

"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"--

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37413320550942 متاح Non-fiction 206.57 KREINER
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المؤلف الرئيسي: Kreiner, Jamie, 1982- (مؤلف)
التنسيق: كتاب
اللغة:English
منشور في: New York, NY : Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company, [2023]
الطبعة:First edition.
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250 |a First edition. 
264 1 |a New York, NY :  |b Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company,  |c [2023] 
300 |a 274 pages :  |b illustrations, maps ;  |c 24 cm 
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505 0 |a Introduction -- The world -- Community -- Body -- Books -- Memory -- Mind -- Conclusion. 
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520 |a "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."--  |c Adapted from jacket. 
650 0 |a Distraction (Psychology)  |x Religious aspects  |x Christianity  |x History  |y To 1500. 
650 0 |a Monasticism and religious orders  |x History  |y Early church, ca. 30-600. 
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