Monasteries, abbeys, and other religious institutions served, for much of the Middle Ages, as the primary sites for the production and reception of written texts of all kinds. They shaped the daily lives of religious figures and transformed the centers of their lives into veritable stages and laboratories for the staging and discursivization of writing. This applies not only to classical textual sources on parchment or paper but also 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 tightly knit, communicative network of linguistic signs and interwoven practices of writing 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 conference are the function and placement of written artifacts within the “monastic space of writing,” as well as their embedding in divergent patterns of action and spatial configurations.Conference Program

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