Brian Stock (historian)

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Brian Stock (born June 8, 1939 in Spokane, Washington) is an American historian. History specialist and modes of perception between the ancient world and the sixteenth century. He taught history and comparative literature at the University of Toronto (Canada) until 2008.

Biography

A graduate of Harvard College and Trinity College (Cambridge), Brian Stock has provided teaching in many universities in Canada, the United States and Europe: University of Cambridge , University of Toronto , University of California in Berkeley , where he Sather Classical Lectures given them in 2001 ; and at the College de France , where he held the International Chair , or at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris .

It was with Charles Halpern, one of the organizers of the Center for Contemplative Mind, and he chaired the committee for two years of the American Council of Learned Societies for the Contemplative Practice Fellowships.

His research focuses on the learning of reading and writing, reading practices and the relationship between reading, inner life of the mind and secular and religious meditation in the classical period and the Middle Ages .

His last important works are interior Libraries (2005), Ethics through Literature (2007) and Augustine's inner dialogue: the philosophical soliloquy in Late Antiquity (2010).

In 2007, Brian Stock received the prestigious Feltrinelli Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome).

Honors and Awards

Publications

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References

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