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... Bertrand Gille has pointed out , to avoid unnecessary labor in order to have more time and energy available for meditation and prayer ; and possibly their willing immersion in ritual predisposed them to mechanical ( repetitive and stand ...
... Bertrand Gille has pointed out , to avoid unnecessary labor in order to have more time and energy available for meditation and prayer ; and possibly their willing immersion in ritual predisposed them to mechanical ( repetitive and stand ...
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... Bertrand Gille , who in turn quotes from Migne's account of Saint Bernard in his ' Patrologia Latina . ' " The river enters the abbey as much as the wall acting as a check allows . It gushes first into the corn - mill where it is very ...
... Bertrand Gille , who in turn quotes from Migne's account of Saint Bernard in his ' Patrologia Latina . ' " The river enters the abbey as much as the wall acting as a check allows . It gushes first into the corn - mill where it is very ...
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... Bertrand Gille , with evidence from medieval monasteries , is particularly good , and relevant to the present book . ( In Vol . II Trevor I. Williams joins the editors . ) Since this is the only complete history of technology in English ...
... Bertrand Gille , with evidence from medieval monasteries , is particularly good , and relevant to the present book . ( In Vol . II Trevor I. Williams joins the editors . ) Since this is the only complete history of technology in English ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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