Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition c. 900-1200.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History | December 22, 2008| | Copyright

Silence and Sign Language in Medieval Monasticism: The Cluniac Tradition c. 900-1200, by Scott G. Bruce. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Life and Thought: Fourth Series. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007. xiv, 209 pp. $95.00 US (cloth).

Deep silence, broken only by the recitation of psalms, has long been a powerful component of our conception of the medieval monastic environment. The hush of the cloister has lately caught the attention of several medievalists, of whom Scott G. Bruce is the most recent. His study Of the monastic vow of silence is paired with ...

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