Brox, Jane,  1956- <br/><br/>
Silence :  a social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives / 
Jane Brox. 
 - 310 pages ;  22 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780544702486 0544702484 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018017520 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Silence--History.<br/>Silence--Social aspects.<br/>Monasticism and religious orders--History.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Pennsylvania--Prisons--History.<br/>Europe--History--476-1492.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BJ1499 .S5  / B769 2019