| USML 21 Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication, Vanderputten Contributor(s): Vanderputten, Steven (Editor) |
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ISBN: 2503534821 ISBN-13: 9782503534824 Publisher: Brepols Publishers OUR PRICE: $102.60 Product Type: Hardcover Language: French Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - History - History | Europe - Medieval - Religion | Christian Rituals & Practice - General |
| Dewey: 271 |
| Series: Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy |
| Physical Information: 402 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Chronological Period - Medieval (500-1453) |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
