LEADER 02924cam 2200505 i 4500001 on1016573886 003 OCoLC 005 20190125130452.1 008 180411t20192019mau b 001 0 eng 010 2018017520 020 9780544702486 |qhardcover 020 0544702484 |qhardcover 035 (Sirsi) 40028883493 035 40028883493 035 (OCoLC)1016573886 040 DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dOCLCO |dOCLCF |dTOH |dOCLCQ |dFM0 |dPCX |dIH9 |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 n-us-pae------ 050 00 BJ1499.S5 |bB76 2019 082 00 302/.1 |223 100 1 Brox, Jane, |d1956- |eauthor. |=^A364076 245 10 Silence : |ba social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives / |cJane Brox. 264 1 Boston : |bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, |c2019. 264 4 |c©2019 300 310 pages ; |c22 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 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 Monastic World: A History 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 World: What Remains -- The Prison Cell in Our Time -- Intervals of Silence -- Coda -- In Ruins. 520 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. 650 0 Silence |xHistory. |=^A189105 650 0 Silence |xSocial aspects. |=^A189105 650 0 Monasticism and religious orders |xHistory. |=^A39871 651 0 Pennsylvania |xPrisons |xHistory. |=^A448933 651 0 Europe |xHistory |y476-1492. |=^A26627 650 7 PHILOSOPHY |xEthics & Moral Philosophy. |2bisacsh 650 7 Silence. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01118516 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 |iOnline version:Brox, Jane, 1956- |tSilence. |dBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 |z9780544702516 |w(DLC) 2018029261 949 |i30372016668144 |ojjlm 960 |o1 |s27.00 |tJoyner48 |uJAPP |zUSD 596 1 998 5066092