TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brox,Jane
TI  - Silence: a social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives 
SN  - 9780544702486
AV  - BJ1499 .S5 B769 2019
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Boston
PB  - Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
KW  - Silence
KW  - History
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Monasticism and religious orders
KW  - Pennsylvania
KW  - Prisons
KW  - Europe
KW  - 476-1492
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part I. Philadelphia's eastern state penitentiary, 1829: experiment in silence -- Man of sorrows -- Benjamin Rush's vision -- "Good by discipline" -- John Haviland's star of solitudes -- Part II. The nonastic world: a sistory of silence -- In proportion -- Speech and silence -- Thomas Merton: silence and the world -- Measures of time -- The voices of the pages -- The great silence -- Part III. Philadelphia: darkening the dark -- Night in stone -- "I get up and hammer my leather." -- Punishment within punishment -- So that it "may uplift" -- Time again -- Part IV. The silence of women -- Silencing silence -- "Or perhaps women ..." -- Monastic women: more shadow than light -- Part V. The ends of silence -- Thomas Merton: questioning silence -- The monastic sorld: what remains -- The prison cell in our time -- Intervals of silence -- Coda -- In ruins
N2  - Offers a history of silence as a powerful shaper of the human mind, specifically in Eastern State Penitentiary and the monastic world of Medieval Europe
ER  -