An Infinity of Little Hours
Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order
$49.07
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
13 March 2007
Summary
In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest centre of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its behaviour and lifestyle since its foundation in 1084. An Infinity of Little Hours is a uniquely intimate portrait of the customs and practices of a monastic order almost entirely unknown until now. It is also a drama of the men’s st…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781586484323 |
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| ISBN-10: | 158648432X |
| Author: | Nancy Maguire |
| Publisher: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Imprint: | PublicAffairs,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 13 March 2007 |
| Weight: | 416g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 144mm x 19mm |
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“Maguire has produced a vivid, gripping and deeply touching picture of a world that is now lost. For an outsider to enter such a closed society and to capture its essence is an astonishing achievement: this is a work of history, but it has all the best qualities of a psychological novel.” Diarmiud MacCullogh “It is fascinating to enter, if only for a few hours, into this way of life, where extreme devotion forms at last a bit of a bulwark against humanity’s digressions.” Los Angeles Times”
About The Author
Nancy Maguire
Nancy Klein Maguire is the author of numerous publications on the relationship of theatre and politics in the seventeenth century. She frequently reviews books, most recently for the Los Angeles Times Book Review. She has been a Scholar-in- Residence at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, since 1983.
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