Arbeit, Musse, Meditation
Subtitle: Studies in the Vita activa and Vita contemplativa
By: herausgegeben von Brian Vickers.
Contributors: Vickers, Brian.
Edition: 2., durchgesehene Aufl.
Publisher: Verlag der Fachvereine; Teubner
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Zürich; Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Work -- Congresses.; Leisure -- Congresses.; Contemplation -- Congresses.; Conduct of life -- Congresses.
Notes: 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.
Table of contents: title: Bios theoretikos und bios praktikos bei Aristoteles und Platon / Gerhard Huber; title: La sociologie antique du loisir et son apport à la réflexion moderne / Jean-Marie André; title: Practice and theory:  civic and spiritual virtues in Plotinus and Augustine / Paul G. Kuntz; title: Activity, contemplation, work, and leisure between the Eleventh and the Thirteenth Centuries / Brian Stock; title: Die Beurteilung der vita contemplativa und activa in der Dominikanermystik des 14. Jahrhunderts / Alois M. Haas; title: The active and the contemplative life in Renaissance humanism / Paul Oskar Kristeller; title: Coluccio Salutati on the active and contemplative lives / Victoria Kahn; title: Active and contemplative in Lorenzo Valla / Letizia A. Panizza; title: Otium im Romanischen / Fritz Schalk; title: Public and private life in Seventeenth-Century England: The Mackenzie-Evelyn debate / Brian Vickers; title: Marthe ou Marie, Diogène ou Cicéron / Bernard Beugnot.