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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, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant p... Read More about The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

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, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these, the distant p... Read More about The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

This book charts the influence of Christian ideas about social responsibility on the legal, fiscal and operational policies of the Merovingian government, which consistently depended upon the collaboration of kings and elites to succeed, and it shows how a set of stories transformed the political pl... Read More about The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth #96)

An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophy   From North Africa to the British Isles, pigs were a crucial part of agriculture and culture in the early medieval period. Jamie Kreiner examines how this ubiqui... Read More about Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West (Yale Agrarian Studies Series)