Brox, Jane
Summary: Documents the role of light in history, tracing how the development of specific innovations had a pivotal influence on social and cultural evolution.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2010
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Summary: Through her original, intertwined histories of the penitentiary and the monastery, Jane Brox illuminates the many ways silence is far more complex than any absolute; how it has influenced ideas of the self, soul, and society. Brox traces its place as a transformative power in the monastic world from Medieval Europe to the very public life of twentieth century monk Thomas Merton, whose love for...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019