Arbeit, Musse, Meditation : studies in the Vita activa and Vita contemplativa /
Vickers, Brian.
Zürich : Verlag der Fachvereine ; Stuttgart : Teubner,
1991.
English, German, and French.
"The essays ... were originally given (with two exceptions) to a symposium which I organized in June, 1981 at the Centre for Renaissance Studies of the ETH Zürich"--Editor's pref.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Bios theoretikos und bios praktikos bei Aristoteles und Platon / Gerhard Huber -- La sociologie antique du loisir et son apport à la réflexion moderne / Jean-Marie André -- Practice and theory:  civic and spiritual virtues in Plotinus and Augustine / Paul G. Kuntz -- Activity, contemplation, work, and leisure between the Eleventh and the Thirteenth Centuries / Brian Stock -- Die Beurteilung der vita contemplativa und activa in der Dominikanermystik des 14. Jahrhunderts / Alois M. Haas -- The active and the contemplative life in Renaissance humanism / Paul Oskar Kristeller -- Coluccio Salutati on the active and contemplative lives / Victoria Kahn -- Active and contemplative in Lorenzo Valla / Letizia A. Panizza -- Otium im Romanischen / Fritz Schalk -- Public and private life in Seventeenth-Century England: The Mackenzie-Evelyn debate / Brian Vickers -- Marthe ou Marie, Diogène ou Cicéron / Bernard Beugnot.
Work
Leisure
Contemplation