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