Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Map
- INTRODUCTION: THE DORMANT LANGUAGE
- 1 UTTERING NO HUMAN SOUND
- 2 THE TRAINING OF THE HAND
- 3 A SILENT COMMERCE OF SIGNS
- 4 TRANSMISSION AND ADAPTATION
- 5 CONTINUITY AND CRITICISM
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix A: The Cluniac sign lexicon
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of tables
- Acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- Map
- INTRODUCTION: THE DORMANT LANGUAGE
- 1 UTTERING NO HUMAN SOUND
- 2 THE TRAINING OF THE HAND
- 3 A SILENT COMMERCE OF SIGNS
- 4 TRANSMISSION AND ADAPTATION
- 5 CONTINUITY AND CRITICISM
- CONCLUSION
- Appendix A: The Cluniac sign lexicon
- Bibliography
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought Fourth Series
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- Silence and Sign Language in Medieval MonasticismThe Cluniac Tradition, c.900–1200, pp. xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2007