Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication

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Understanding Monastic Practices of Oral Communication is written by Steven Vanderputten and published by Brepols Publishers. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 2503534821 (ISBN 10) and 9782503534824 (ISBN 13).

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.