Title Silence and sign language in medieval monasticism : the Cluniac tradition c. 900-1200 / Scott G. Bruce

Published Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 209 pages) : map Series Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought. Fourth series ; 68 Cambridge studies in medieval life and thought ; 4th ser., 68. Contents Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Dormant Language; Chapter 1 Uttering No Human Sound; Chapter 2 The Training of the Hand; Chapter 3 A Silent Commerce of Signs; Chapter 4 Transmission and Adaptation; Chapter 5 Continuity and Criticism; Conclusion; Appendix A The Cluniac Sign Lexicon; Bibliography; Index Summary A study of religious silence and sign language in an early medieval abbey Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-205) and index Notes Print version record Subject Cluny (Benedictine abbey) SUBJECT Cluny (Benedictine abbey) fast Kloster Cluny gnd Cluniazenser gnd Subject Monastic and religious life -- France -- Cluny -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500 Silence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Solitude -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. Sign language. Sign Language LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Sign Language. Monastic and religious life -- Middle Ages Sign language Silence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Solitude -- Religious aspects -- Christianity Schweigen Zeichensprache France -- Cluny Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780511367496 051136749X 0511366272 9780511366277 9780511496417 0511496419

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