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The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction 

byJamie Kreiner

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 argument in The Wandering Mind develops through archival sources, narrative history, and voices from the period, attending to both broad patterns and the revealing details that resist them. That perspective connects what medieval monks tell us about distraction to larger questions in history and psychology, without losing sight of the people living through the consequences.

Publisher

Liveright Publishing Corporation

Publication date

2023

Format

Print edition

Pages

288

ISBN

9781631498053