TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brox,Jane
TI  - Silence: a social history of one of the least understood elements of our lives 
SN  - 9780544702486
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 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
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  -