Throughout much of the Middle Ages, monasteries, abbeys, and other religious institutions served as the primary venues for the production and reception of written texts of all kinds. They shaped the daily lives of religious figures and transformed their living environments into veritable stages and laboratories for the staging and discursivization of writing. This applies to classical textual sources on parchment or paper, but equally to inscriptions, whose presence in the “monastic space of writing” our conference seeks to systematically map. To this end, the conference conceives of this “monastic space of writing” as a dense, communicative network of linguistic signs and interwoven writing practices which, according to our thesis, contributed decisively to the stabilization of the corporate characteristics of the respective institutions. Among the central points of discussion at the meeting are the function and placement of written artifacts within the monastery’s “space of writing,” as well as their embedding in divergent patterns of action and spatial configurations.

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