The hermeneutics of distraction in early medieval England /

Distraction is now too easily considered a metonym for modern consciousness, but it was also a medieval concern, which posed a particular threat to religious life. Distraction opened the door to all other temptations, & most disturbingly of all for the monastic communities at the heart of this b...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Weaver, Erica, 1990- (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2025]
Series:	Oxford studies in medieval literature and culture.
Subjects:	Monasticism and religious orders > England > History > Middle Ages, 600-1500. Distraction (Psychology) > England > History > To 1500. Hermeneutics > Religious aspects > Christianity > History > To 1500. Medieval. HISTORY. LITERARY CRITICISM. Cognitive Psychology & Cognition. PSYCHOLOGY. Monasticism. RELIGION. Religion & beliefs. Religion. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

List of figures
List of abbreviations
Note on sources
Epigraph
Prologue : taking hold of naked thought
Introduction : histories of attention
Chanting lips and wandering minds : from psalmic overfamiliarity to hermeneutic English
Living in enigmate : Aldhelm's Enigmata and hermeneutic Latin
Concentrated poems : late Old English and the poetics of attention
Lessons in distraction
Welcome (in)attention : focusing on absence
Coda : distracting and difficult style.