Understanding monastic practices of oral communication
Subtitle: Western Europe, tenth-thirteenth centuries
By: edited by Steven Vanderputten
Series: Utrecht studies in medieval literacy -- 21; Utrecht studies in medieval literacy -- 21.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9782503534824
Subjects: History; Congresses; Monastic and religious life; Oral communication; Christianity
Notes: Contributions to a conference held in Ghent, Belgium, in 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Thirteen English, 3 French, 2 German contributions; occasional phrases in Latin.
Table of contents: title: Communicaton at the Abbey of St. Gall  -- Gerd Althoff; title: Verba volant, scripta manent :; title: limits of speech, power of silence and logic of practice in some monastic conflicts of the High Middle Ages  -- Wojtek Jezierski; title: Monachos hujus ecclesie ad se venire fecit :; title: attitudes laïques comme reflets des stratégies monastiques orales et rituelles dans les transferts patrimoniaux  -- Steven Vanderputten; title: Oral transmission of liturgical practice in the eleventh-century customaries of Cluny  -- Susan Boynton; title: Education, liturgy and practice in early Cîteaux  -- Diane J. Reilly; title: Celebrating with dignity :; title: the purpose of Benedictine matins readings  -- Tjamke Snijders; title: Traces d'oralité dans les recueils d'exempla cisterciens  -- Marie-Anne Polo de Beaulieu; title: What Charles the Simple told the canons of Compiègne :; title: oral and written transmissions of memory in the Genealogie dictata a Karolo Rege  -- Geoffrey Koziol; title: L'oralité monastique et la fabrication des légendes hagiographiques  -- Edina Bozóky; title: "Ins Gespräch gebracht" :; title: der Dialog als Prinzip monastischer Unterweisung  -- Mirko Breitenstein; title: Performance, orality, and communication in medieval women convents in the light of the plays of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim  -- Albrecht Classen; title: Bericht, Verschriftlichung und Reoralisierung visionärer Erlebnisse im Mönchtum des 12. und 13. Jahrhunderts  -- Peter Dinzelbacher; title: Conversations amongst monks and nuns, 1000-1200  -- Elisabeth Van Houts; title: Did medieval monks actually speak Latin?  -- Julie Barrau; title: Oleum de saxo durissimo :; title: Bernard of Clairvaux's poetics of silence  -- Wim Verbaal; title: Wandering eyes, muttering, and frowns :; title: Bernard of Clairvaux and the communicative implications of gesture  -- Mette B. Bruun; title: Orality, non-written communication and monastic studies -- Marco Mostert.