Brian Stock (historian)
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Brian Stock (born June 8, 1939), is a citizen of Canada and France. He is a historian of modes of perception between the ancient world and the sixteenth century. He was Rouse Ball Student at Trinity College, Cambridge, and Senior Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, before joining the graduate faculty of the University of Toronto, where he taught history and literature until 2007.[1]
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 Collège 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 important publications include The Implications of Literacy (1983) and Augustine the Reader (1996).
In 2007 Brian Stock received the prestigious International Feltrinelli Prize of the Accademia dei Lincei (Rome).
Honors and Awards
Fiske Fellowship, Harvard College and Trinity College, Cambridge, 1962–63 Senior Rouse Ball Studentship, Trintiy College, Cambridge, 1966–67 Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 1969–70 Senior Killam Fellowship, Canada Council, 1973–74 Directeur d'études associé, EHESS, Paris, 1981, 1994 University Professor of the Humanities, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1985 Visiting Professor, Collège de France, 1987 Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Virginia, 1990 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Université de Genève, 1990 Distinguished Visiting Professor of Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley, 1990 William H. Morton Fellow, Humanities Institute, Dartmouth College, 1991 Academic Advisory Board, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, 1993–99 Chair Internationale, Collège de France, 1996 Resident Fellow, Bellagio Study and Conference Center, Rockefeller Foundation, 1996 A. S. W. Rosenbach Lectures, University of Pennsylvania, 1999 Sather Professor of Classical Literature, University of California, Berkeley, 2001. University Professor, Central European University, Budapest, 2001-. Lionel Trilling Seminar, Columbia University, 2001 Frederick Artz Lecture, Oberlin College, 2003. Hilldale Lecture, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 2003. The Jerusalem Lectures, Historical Society of Israel, 2005 Mary White Lecture, University of Toronto, 2005 Lester Little Residency, American Academy of Rome, 2006–07 Fellow, Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, Rome, 2007 International Feltrinelli Prize, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, 2007 Comité scientifique, Institue d'études avancées, Paris, 2007–13 Honorary Fellow, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, 2009 Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2010
Publications
In English:[2]
- 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
- After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text, University of Pennsylvania 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
- The Integrated Self: Augustine, the Bible, and Ancient Thought, Univerrsity of Pennsylvania Press, 2016.
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)