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Showing Results for monasticism and religious orders -- history -- middle ages, 600 1500
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"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"--
"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...
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Somogy éditions d'art
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[2012]
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"'Go to Jerusalem to recapture Christ's tomb!' The call issued by Pope Urban II was enthusiastically received by the western knights who were to reconquer the Holy City on 15 July 1099. But the crusaders were short of both money and manpower. And the county of Champagne was about to supply them with both. Leaving behind his wife and children, Hugues de Payns went to Jerusalem and stayed there. To ensure the safety of pilgrims to the Holy Land, he...
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