Brian Stock (historian)

(this content is adapted from the French Wikipedia article)

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

• 1962 : Arnold Prize of Harvard University
• 1962 : Fiske Fellowship, Trinity College, Cambridge
• 1963 - 1965 Commonwealth Fellowship
• 1966 - 1967: Senior Rouse Ball Fellowship, Trinity College, Cambridge
• 1969 - 1970: Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
• 1973 - 1974: Senior Killam Fellow, Canada Council
• 1981 - 1985: Fellow, Connaught Foundation
• 1985 : University Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
• 1987 : Lecturer, College de France
• 1990 : Distinguished Scholar, University of Virginia
• 1990 : Distinguished Professor of Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley
• 1990 : William H. Morton Fellow, Dartmouth College
• 1993 - ...: Academic Advisory Board, Wissenschahskolleg zu Berlin
• 1996 : Fellow, Bellagio Study Center, Rockefeller Foundation
• 1997 - 1998: International Chair of the College de France
• 2007: Feltrinelli Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei, Rome

Publications

In English:^[1]

• Myth and Science in the twelfth Century: a Study of Bernard Silvester, Princeton University Press, 1972
• The Implications of Literacy: written Language and Models of Interpretation in the eleventh and twelfth Centuries, Princeton University Press, 1983
• Listening for the Text: on the Uses of the Past, Baltimore and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990
• Augustine the Reader: Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation, Cambridge and London, Harvard University Press, 1996
• Ethics through literature: aesthetic and ascetic reading in Western culture, Hanover, University Press of New England, 2007
• Augustine's inner dialogue: the philosophical soliloquy in Late Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, 2010

In French:

• La connaissance de soi au Moyen Âge et la littérature autobiographique, leçon inaugurale faite le vendredi 9 janvier 1998, Paris, Conférences au Collège de France, 1998 (Self-knowledge in the Middle Ages and autobiographical literature inaugural lecture made Friday, January 9, 1998, Paris, Lectures at the Collège de France, 1998)
• Bibliothèques intérieures, trad. de Philippe Blanc et Christophe Carraud, préface de Christophe Carraud, Grenoble, Jérôme Millon, 2005 (Internal libraries, trans. Philippe Blanc and Christophe Carraud, preface by Christopher Carraud, Grenoble, Jérôme Millon, 2005)
• Lire, une ascèse ? Lecture ascétique et lecture esthétique dans la culture occidentale : Menahem Stern Jerusalem lectures, 2005, trad. de Christophe Carraud, Grenoble, Jérôme Millon, 2008 (Read asceticism? Ascetic aesthetic reading and reading in Western culture: Menahem Stern Jerusalem readings, 2005, trans. Christopher Carraud, Grenoble, Jérôme Millon, 2008)

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