Puzzles
€36.90
Product Information
| ISBN | 9781803095431 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Seagull Books London Ltd |
| Publishing Date | 15/05/2026 |
| Price (excl. tax) | €34.81 |
| Tax | €2.09 |
| Price (incl. tax) | €36.90 |
| Availability | 1 unit in external warehouse |
Product Description
A seminar, a sixteenth-century heretical text, and the art of slow reading—this is historical research as you’ve never seen it before. Patience Games: A Seminar on the 'Benefit of Christ' invites readers into the unpredictable world of scholarly discovery, where interpretation is not a straight path but a labyrinth of dialogue revision. At the heart of this book is a seminar held forty years ago at the University of Bologna, where students wrestled with The Beneficio di Cristo, the incendiary sixteenth-century text that questioned Church authority and championed salvation through grace alone. This is not a neatly packaged historical study, however—it is an unfiltered look at the errors and insights that emerge in the collective process of reading and debating a text. Through shifting hypotheses and the sheer unpredictability of research, Patience Games dismantles the illusion of scholarship as a sterile pursuit, revealing instead a messy, deeply human endeavor. Blending sharp analysis with wit and self-irony, the book makes a compelling case for the continued importance of slow reading—even in an age where knowledge is just a click away.