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      The Wandering Mind

      Jamie Kreiner

      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

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      How to Focus

      John Cassian

      Distraction isn't a new problem. We're also not the first to complain about how hard it is to concentrate. Early Christian monks beat us to it. They had given up…

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      Legions of Pigs in the Early Medieval West

      Jamie Kreiner

      An exploration of life in the early medieval West, using pigs as a lens to investigate agriculture, ecology, economy, and philosophy

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      The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom

      Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia)

      This book explains how Christianity influenced the government, how religion was flexible, and how literature became one of the most influential forces in early medieval Gaul. Its picture of post-Roman…

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      The Social Life of Hagiography in the Merovingian Kingdom

      Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia)

      This book explains how Christianity influenced the government, how religion was flexible, and how literature became one of the most influential forces in early medieval Gaul. Its picture of post-Roman…

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      The Wandering Mind: What Medieval Monks Tell Us About Distraction

      Jamie Kreiner (University of Georgia)

      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.

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      Motions of Late Antiquity: Essays on Religion, Politics, and Society in Honour of Peter Brown

      When did Late Antiquity actually end? Peter Brown, who has done so much to define the field, once replied: ‘always later than you think’. This book takes stock of this…

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