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Title Statement | The wandering mind: what medieval monks tell us about distraction / Jamie Kreiner. |
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Author | Kreiner, Jamie, 1982- |
Publication | New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company,[2023]©2023 |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | 274 pages |
ISBN | 9781631498053 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr06909912 |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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"-- |
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By Topic | 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 |