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Durham Cathedral History 16th century England Church history 1485- Europe History 476-1492 Monasticism and religious orders England Durham History 16th century Monasticism and religious orders History Pennsylvania Prisons History Silence Silence History Silence Social aspects VIII, King of England Henry 1491-1547Kreiner, Jamie
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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 206 KREBrox, Jane
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
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 302 BROMoorhouse, Geoffrey
Contents: Ecclesiastical map of Durham, 1535 -- Plan of the monastery -- Map of Durham Peninsula -- Tenebrae -- The reason why -- A prince among bishops -- The Thirtieth Prior -- Substantial poverty -- The Great Matter -- The apparatus of plunder -- The small houses fall -- The Furness example -- Buying time -- A great violation -- A new order -- The end of an era -- The iconoclast -- A great villain.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: BlueBridge 2009