Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication (Western Europe, tenth-thirteenth centuries)

Edited by Steven Vanderputten

Book cover: Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication (Western Europe, tenth-thirteenth centuries)

Extent: 402 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Medieval Studies

Series: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy

Series volume number: 21

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(August 2011)

ISBN: 9782503534824

Price: $108.00

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Although traditionally defined as a literate environment, Western monastic culture depended on a range of communicative practices which was just as large, and in some ways more sophisticated in its diversity, than that of other groups of society. Monks and nuns exchanged considerable amounts of information for which no written media were deemed necessary or which did not make a complete or immediate transition into written sources. Grouped in five thematic chapters, the papers in this volume aim to provide inroads into a useable interpretation of the various contexts in which monks and nuns in the central Middle Ages considered the spoken word as a vital complementary medium to other forms of communication.

  • Edited by Steven Vanderputten