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050		4	_aBJ1499 .S5 _bB769 2019
100	1		_aBrox, Jane, _d1956-
245	1	0	_aSilence : _ba social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives / _cJane Brox.
264		1	_aBoston : _bHoughton Mifflin Harcourt, _c2019.
264		4	_c©2019.
300			_a310 pages ; _c22 cm.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent.
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia.
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPart 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.
520			_aOffers 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	_aSilence _xHistory.
650		0	_aSilence _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aMonasticism and religious orders _xHistory.
651		0	_aPennsylvania _xPrisons _xHistory.
651		0	_aEurope _xHistory _y476-1492.
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBrox, Jane, 1956- _tSilence. _dBoston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 _z9780544702516 _w(DLC) 2018029261.
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