Understanding monastic practices of oral communication : Western Europe, tenth-thirteenth centuries / edited by Steven Vanderputten.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vanderputten, Steven.

Series:

Utrecht studies in medieval literacy ; 21.

Utrecht studies in medieval literacy

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Monastic and religious life--Europe--History--Middle Ages, 600-1500--Congresses.

Monastic and religious life.

Oral communication--Religious aspects--Christianity--Congresses.

Oral communication.

Oral communication--Religious aspects--Christianity.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

x, 390 pages : some illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, 2011.

Language Note:

Thirteen English, 3 French, 2 German contributions.

Summary:

As part of a five-year research project on oral communication in Medieval monastic communities, an international conference was held in Ghent, The Netherlands, during May of 2008, and all 17 papers presented there are published here. They cover the politics of non-written communication; traces of orality in liturgy, customs, and material culture; traces of orality in the transmission of memory; and educating and voicing the monastic mind. Among the topics are communicating at the Abbey of St. Gall, the oral transmission of liturgical practice in the 11th-century customaries of Cluny, what Charles the Simple told the canons of Compiegne, conversation amongst monks and nuns 1000-1200, and Bernard of Clairvaux and the communicative implications of gesture. Only manuscripts are indexed. Distributed in North America by The David Brown Book Co. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Contributions to a conference held in Ghent, Belgium, in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9782503534824

2503534821

OCLC:

747528651